December 2011
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‘Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.’ What’s the point of...
– Haruki Murakami, Nowergian Wood
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From denial to denial, his existence is diminished: vaguer and more unreal than a syllogism of sighs, how could he still be a creature of flesh and blood? Anemic, he rivals the Idea itself; he has abstracted himself from his ancestors, from his friends, from every soul and himself; in his veins, once turbulent, rests a light from another world. Liberated from what he has lived, unconcerned by what...
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“You see, though nothing mattered to me, I could feel pain, for instance. If anyone had stuck me it would have hurt me. It was the same morally: if anything very pathetic happened, I should have felt pity just as I used to do in old days when there were things in life that did matter to me. I had felt pity that evening. I should have certainly helped a child. Why, then, had I not helped the little...
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The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we’ve become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.
― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes
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Étrange comment, quand on est avec quelqu’un, on veut qu’une chose, c’est avoir...
– Pragmata - david calvo
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I think it’s difficult for us to know what we lose. We are constantly loosing...
– William Gibson