Daniela Negruţi

“… one of the great advances in modern cultural theory is the realization, almost universally acknowledged, that cultures are hybrid and heterogenous and, as I argued in Culture and Imperialism, that cultures and civilizations are so interrelated and interdependent as to beggar any unitary or simply delineated description of their individuality. How can one today speak of "Western civilization" except as in large measure an ideological fiction, implying a sort of detached superiority for a handful of values and ideas, none of which has much meaning outside the history of conquest, immigration, travel, and the mingling of peoples that gave the Western nations their present mixed identities?”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

“Rather than the manufactured clash of civilizations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other, and live together in far more interesting ways than any abridged or inauthentic mode of understanding can allow.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

“We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.”
― René Magritte

“Caci asta mi se pare lucrul cel mai greu de invatat in contemplarea iubitei: sa stii cum sa-i privesti ochii. Uneori, privirile noastre lovesc atat de nepriceput oglinda ochilor iubitei , incat o tulbura, aburind-o; sau, si mai grav, fac ochii opaci, le dau un luciu de teracota, de smalt colorat. Si sunt, de asemenea, priviri crancene, care smulg retina sau o patrund salbatic, sangerand-o, sau o intuneca..,”
― Mircea Eliade, Nuntă în cer