February 2012
37 posts
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“La pensée console de tout et remédie à tout. Si quelquefois elle vous fait du...”
– Samuel Beckett, from Collected Poems in English and French. London: John Calder, 1977.
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“[T]he fact that failure provides the norm of saying arouses a fallacious hope...”
– Alain Badiou. Handbook of Inaesthetics. Trans. Alberto Toscano. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005. 101-2.
“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”
– William Faulkner (via sadseas)
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the...”
– John Cage (via funeral)
“The dominant force in cosmos is blindness. It allows a coexistence of things...”
– Elias Canetti, “Die Blendung”, p. 72 (via aliceinslaughterhouse)
notesfromaboveground:
Yes, there are moments, like this moment, when I seem almost restored to the feasible. Then it goes, all goes, and I’m far again, with a far story again, I wait for me afar for my story to begin, to end, and again this voice cannot be mine. That’s where I’d go, if I could go, that’s who I’d be, if I could be.
-Samuel Beckett, from Texts for Nothing #4
“…no existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (via nminusone)
“Men who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire (via icarus606)
“The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things...”
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via origamiunicorn)
“Visibility is a trap…; it summons surveillance and the law; it provokes...”
– peggy phelan (1993) unmarked (via noteasybeingred)
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“I should disappear,
someone tells me, in there,
though, knocked down, I still...”
– Ingeborg Bachmann, “[I should disappear.]. From Darkness Spoken.
“Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation,...”
– John Stuart Mill (via philphys)
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January 2012
78 posts
“I made a sign with my hand meaning this is the end. The end that has no end. It...”
– Ingeborg Bachmann, from “Undine Goes” tr. Michael Bullock (via hypocrite-lecteur)
“…the university is perceived to be a site for the contestation as well as for...”
– Louis A. Montrose, from “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture” (via cfbwe)
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““You must know,” said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are.”
– J.M. Barrie 1860-1937, Aims for Oblivion. (via ontheborderland)
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very...”
– Niels Bohr (via philphys)
“So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do...”
– Antonin Artaud (via schweigend)
