“No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.”
― Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
― Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
“Who, on seeing a Parisian apartment house, has never thought of it as indestructible? A bomb, a fire, an earthquake could certainly bring it down, but what else? In the eyes of an individual, of a family, or even a dynasty, a town, street, or house seems unchangeable, untouchable by time, by the ups and downs of human life, to such an extent that we believe we can compare and contrast the fragility of our condition to the invulnerability of stone.”
― Life: A User's Manual
― Life: A User's Manual
“Ne bi imalo nikakvog smisla da je drugačije. Sve su proučili, sve izračunali, ne dolazi u obzir da se prevare, nitko nikada nije uočio ni jednu pogrešku, makar samo za nekoliko centimetara ili milimetara. Svejedno uvijek osjećam nešto poput ushićenja kad pomislim da su se u sredini tunela kroz planinu Cenis susreli francuski i talijanski kopači.”
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“Ulični protesti iz 1973. godine: za lakat mu se pridržava djevojka i on je nagnut unazad, prema njoj, ramenom je štiti, tako da je cijelo njegovo tijelo zauzelo položaj u odnosu na njeno prisustvo, a ne u odnosu na policiju ispred njih... i, eto, znači, to je ta Povijest? Sjena koju baca muško rame”
― Knjiga prozora
― Knjiga prozora
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