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“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
“Sugar, you deserve to go out on your own terms. Just because you got dusted doesn’t mean you’re done.”
― Done and Dusted
― Done and Dusted
“He has this feeling, with women, that it’s hard to have an experience that feels entirely new, that doesn’t feel like something that has already happened, and will probably happen again in some very similar way, so that it never feels like all that much is at stake. There’s often this feeling of—Yes, I like you, but I like other people as well. It’s not even that I like them more. It’s just that I don’t like them less. So to be with any one person feels like an arbitrary thing, and that arbitrary feeling has started to undermine any lingering sense that there might be a particular person that he’s somehow meant to be with.”
― Flesh
― Flesh
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