Anthony

“Whatever hermeneutic violence you unleash on this image should be no greater than the violence you unleash on the real world.”
― Munir Hachemi, Living Things

“The past and future are present fictions.”
― Steven C. Hayes, A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters

“The habits of our lives make us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world. Now reality appears to be changed, unreal. When a man awakens, or dies, he is slow to free himself from the terrors of the dream, from the worries and manias of life. Now it will be hard for me to break the habit of being afraid of these people.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“Whoever is fascinated doesn't see, properly speaking, what he sees. Rather, it touches him in an immediate proximity; it seizes and ceaselessly draws him close, even though it leaves him absolutely at a distance. Fascination is fundamentally linked to neutral, impersonal presence, to the indeterminate They, the immense, faceless Someone. Fascination is the relation the gaze entertains -- a relation which is itself neutral and impersonal -- with sightless, shapeless depth, the absence one sees because it is blinding.”
― Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature