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“Now I am an axolotl.”
― Blow-Up and Other Stories
― Blow-Up and Other Stories
“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”
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“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
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“In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."
-- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors”
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-- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors”
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“From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.”
― The Invisibles, Vol. 6: Kissing Mister Quimper
― The Invisibles, Vol. 6: Kissing Mister Quimper
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