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"The classic Zen gardens are not to be confused with nature. They're painting of nature, which means that they have to be framed, just as paintings in Japan or China are mounted as scrolls or as screens. As with a painting, you separate the work of art form everything else, put an edging around it and "present" it for our enjoyment."

" Maybe that fleeting quality is part of what makes eating so euphoric. Take all the pictures you want. Preserve them on Instagram. But no image can reconnect anyone with the flavor of a dish, its contrasts of texture and temperature, the way it collapsed beneath your teeth."

"This is, after all, the implicit lesson of the French paradox, so-called not by the French (Quel paradoxe?) but by American nutritionists, who can't fathom how people who enjoy their food as much as the French do, and blithely eat so many nutrients deemed toxic by nutritionists, could have substantially lower rates of heart disease than we do on our elaborately engineered low-fat diets."

" The cultural sector, in my definition, encourages people to claim - and own - their individual sensations of the world. At a local level, this makes them participants in steering Spaceship Earth, rather than being passengers. That's why, in the broader scheme of counter-numbness activity, I think democratisation of access to art and culture is so important."

"{...} oameni marginiti, ce va lipseste ca sa ma intelegeti? Stiti voi oare ca fara englezi mai poate trai omenirea, si fara Germania poate, fara omul nostru rus cu atat mai mult ar putea sa traiasca, fara stiinta la fel, fara paine la fel, numai fara frumuseste nu poate, pentru ca atunci nici n-ar avea ce face omul pe lumea aceasta!"

"I must, however, bear in mind that my every move to erase previous events provokes a rain of new events, which complicate the situation worse than before and which I will then, in their turn, have to try to erase. Therefore I must calculate carefully every move so as to achieve the maximum of erasure with the minimum of recomplication."

"Mereu aproape, niciodata in centru. Aproape- pozitie de nerealizare integrala, dar si de o intimitate afectiva"

"Din pacate nu stau in centru, ci la frontiera Marais-ului, mereu la frontiera, "langa", "aproape", dar niciodata in inima unui loc, a unui act."

Acolo, periodic, ma confruntam cu acute ezitari hamletiene: sa revin, sa nu revin?

"In ochii lui cenusii vedea o profunda tristete, in care nu putea decat sa vada tristetea omului care simte atingerea rece pe umarul sau, a omului care a auzit vaietul Mortii."

"Atlanta insa era din generatia ei; avea toata cruzimea tineretii, un oras impulsiv si impetuos ca si ea."

"Se intreba cum o fi fost sa locuiesti acolo, chiar la marginea lumii. Oare simti ca esti gata sa te rastorni si sa cazi in ocean?"

"Si ma sperie intunerecul in care s-a topit Ileana, viata asta, necunoscuta mie, care o inghite..."

"Totala ei lipsa de frivolitate, de ce nu semana cu nici una din femeile capitalei, atat de frumoase, dar comstruite din atatea linii frante...."

"Ah, de ce sintem blestemate sa iubim 'intelectuali', de ce nu ne-am nascut in alte clase, unde barbatii n-au ginduri, unde femeile n-au indoieli, unde dragostea e simpla si monotona?..."

"Nu vezi cat se opintesc oamenii de la noi, ii scrisese atunci, ca sa faca ceva? Sint obsedati de actiune, si totusi nu fac nimic. Mi se pare ca lucrul esential nu e actiunea, ci gasirea de sine."

"Nu incapea indoiala. Albert o atinsese cu limba. Era gravida."

Cand o persoana considera ca limbajul este indestulator, inseamna ca nu a simtit si nici nu a descoperit mare lucru. Ce cumplita saracie: sa poti sa te exprimi perfect!