“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
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“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
“The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.”
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“Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.”
― Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
― Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
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