Cece Hemmerle’s Reviews > Guilty > Status Update

“ but possession of chance requires fingers as light as chance itself. You have to have fingers that don’t grasp. Nothing is more contrary to chance (to love) than endless questioning or anxious trembling or the need to exclude unfavorable chance developments; nothing is more pointless than exhausting reflection”

“… the moment of truth— referring to the critical moment of the bullfight: when the wounded beast sees death approaching. Trickery? With death— how could anyone not resort to cheating? Trickery! I made up my mind to die the other say: what came in with my anguish went out with the next wind”

“‘Is God the animal I’d like to tear apart?’ As if I really was a beast of prey. But I’m sicker than that. My hunger holds no interest for me. Rather than eat, my desire is to be eaten…Once you realize you’ve been abandoned and that your vanity has been rendered helpless between the absence of a solution and the banal answer of the mysteries of a self, there’s nothing left in you but a wound.”