“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
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“The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”
― Jacques Derrida
― Jacques Derrida
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