“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
― The Portrait of a Lady
― The Portrait of a Lady
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
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“...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed...”
― Pnin
― Pnin
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