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“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
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“When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.”
― A Tale of Love and Darkness
― A Tale of Love and Darkness
“Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”
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“Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.”
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“Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.”
― Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
― Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
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Akash’s 2025 Year in Books
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