“Visible being is natural...But language, art, history gravitate around the invisible (ideality).”
― Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France
― Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France
“She is merely acclimatizing herself, in accordance with a natural law, like an animal which changes its coat for the winter. Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatizing themselves. After all, whatever government is in power, they are doomed to live in this town.”
― Goodbye to Berlin
― Goodbye to Berlin
“I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
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I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
―
“Berlin was charismatic in the roguish way of a love... It was a lover who was a little dangerous in ways that didn't always show, keeping you a bit on edge, a bit in love and endlessly forgiving because he made her feel that she was exactly where she was meant to be... Berlin made you like who you were when you were there, as if everything worth being a part of in the world - all those modern ideas about sex and art and women; all that possibility - was right there, in its dark, beating heart.”
― Eight Girls Taking Pictures
― Eight Girls Taking Pictures
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