Danilo Venticinque > Recent Status Updates

“One must discern between a dream and a calling”

“Stories make solid what would otherwise break”

“To become a woman is to know blood without violence. It is also to know violence without blood.”

“To dance is to be pure beyond the darkness of the world”

“Sólo en los nacimientos y las muertes se sale uno del tiempo”

“(…) the human drama is subordinate, almost inconsequential, compared to the majesty of the theatre in which it occurs”

“Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks”

“It feels like these days our value is determined by how much effort we make from day to day. That matters even more than our results. After a while, the concept of effort starts to become mixed up with things feeling difficult, and then you reach the point where the person seen as the most admirable is the one suffering the most.”

“A noticeable decrease in common sense in any given community and a noticeable increase in superstition and gullibility are therefore almost infallible signs of alienation from the world”

“Intimacy requires a solid sense of self to be successful and satisfying”

“(…) a child’s need for attachment far outweighs its capacity for self-protection”

“I have given up my membership of the world I used to live in”

“Togetherness was a poor substitute for equality; the glorification of women's role was a poor substitute for free participation in the world as an individual.”

“If a culture does not expect human maturity from its women, it does not see its lack as a waste”

“Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women”

The revolt of the masses against “realism,” common sense, and all “the plausibilities of the world” (Burke) was the result of their atomization, of their loss of social status along with which they lost the whole sector of communal relationships in whose framework common sense makes sense.

“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer”

“What does it matter if I become mute in a world where there is no one to talk to?”

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”

“My point isn't that men create deficient art, it's that if we only have art created by men, we might want to bear that in mind when we respond to it.”

“8. The problems of Albertine are
(from the narrator’s point of view)
a) lying
b) lesbianism,
and (from Albertine’s point of view)
a) being imprisoned in the narrator’s house.”

“It’s pretty exhausting avoiding yourself all the time”

"'To sex and its many ramifications,' he said; and raised his glass."

“The whole of adult society is built on millions of adolescent stories. Each of us is standing on the shoulders of our fragile teenage selves.”

We have a capacity for language. We have a capacity for love. We need other people to release those capacities

“The wider you read, the freer you become”

“It took me a long time to realize that there are two kinds of writing; the one that you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.”