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“I conceive of the magic of prayers. I conceive of the magic of blasphemies. There is witchcraft in religion: there may be witchcraft in atheism.”
― Wild Talents
― Wild Talents
“The charm of sleepless nights is the idea that tomorrow will not come.”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“What this means is that subject is not the real person behind the symbolic mask but the self-awareness of the mask itself in its distance towards the real person.”
― Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
― Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
“O God! I ask again, what are we? If I look to the years that preceded me, what an infinite space do I see in which I was not! And if I glance to the years ahead, what a horrible succession of years in which I will no longer be! What a small place do I occupy in the immense abyss of time! I am nothing.”
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“Filming a scene, there are countless takes of the same incident. Someone watching in the street - obviously a provincial - can't get over it: 'After this, I'll never go to the movies again.'
One might react similarly with regard to anything whose underside one has seen, whose secret has been seized. Yet, by an obnubilation which has something of the miraculous about it, there are gynecologists who are attracted to their patients, gravediggers who father children, incurables who lay plans, skeptics who write . . .”
― The Trouble With Being Born
One might react similarly with regard to anything whose underside one has seen, whose secret has been seized. Yet, by an obnubilation which has something of the miraculous about it, there are gynecologists who are attracted to their patients, gravediggers who father children, incurables who lay plans, skeptics who write . . .”
― The Trouble With Being Born
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