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“Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on.”
― Notes of a Crocodile
― Notes of a Crocodile
“As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.”
― Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας
― Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας
“Canadians, do not vomit on me!”
― Sleepless Nights
― Sleepless Nights
“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life
“All of this follows from a time in history when procedures have taken command over rituals. A moment that is elusive, hard to establish, since the two powers also have features in common. First of all, they are both formalized actions. But they aim in opposite directions. Ritual aims toward perfect awareness, which for Catholics is the moment of transubstantiation. Procedures, on the other hand, point toward total automatism. The more procedures multiply, the more the realm of automata expands.”
― The Unnamable Present
― The Unnamable Present
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