May 2013
“We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.”
– Roland Barthes
“I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the...”
– Juliet Marillier
“I love you and it’s getting worse.”
– Joseph E. Morris
“You only demand clarity because you’re too comfortable within your vagueness;...”
– Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959
“The “lack of representation” cuts two ways. Representation is always involved...”
– Peter Schwenger, At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature
“[C]ontrary to what phenomenology—which is always a phenomenology of...”
– Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs
“I lived in a sort of fog in which the laughter became so muffled that eventually...”
– Albert Camus
“It was a sad folly, he knew, to assume that even this feeling, the most powerful...”
– Jonathan Dee A Thousand Pardons
“Things look bad for great Causes today, in a “postmodern” era when, although the...”
– Slavoj Zizek, Introduction, In Defense of Lost Causes
“I think I am too sarcastic to believe in myself.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, from Ecce Homo
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s...”
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“In a world where all is unstable, and nought can endure, but is swept onwards at...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Vanity of Existence
“Most people aren’t trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a...”
– Iconic designer Charles Eames in 15 quotes for his 105 birthday this weekend.
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“There’s a feeling that there’s a vast dark area of ignorance, but all of us are...”
– Jordan S. Ellenberg
“Imagine a room,
a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart,
my throat, my wrist....”
– “Saying Your Names,” Richard Siken
“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be...”
– Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
“The “lack of representation” cuts two ways. Representation is always involved...”
– Peter Schwenger, At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature
“Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of...”
– Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault
“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever...”
– Margaret Atwood
“Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are...”
– Charles Nodier, Smarra: & Trilby
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“He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”
—Cormac McCarthy, from All the Pretty Horses (Vintage, 1992)
“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and...”
– Sofia Coppola on Lost in Translation (2003)
“The composer reveals the innermost essence of the world and pronounces the most...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (as quoted -approvingly- by Arnold Schoenberg in his 1912 Essay The Relationship of the Text, appearing as a chapter of the Blaue Reiter Almanac) 