A FINALE OF QUOTES
Now that summer is coming to its sweet close, I have finished my summer reading list (about 2/5 of it) so I proudly present to you, a culmination of favorite quotes!
“I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It's as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that's it, an always within never.”
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“We act in and against a world that remains other to us. Reduced to nothing but users, and our actions forced into the commodity form, our collective work and play produces a world over and against us, one that massively persists in its own habits of functioning. Worse, collective human labor made a world for a ruling class that keeps making not only itself but us in its image.”
McKenzie Wark, Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse?
Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don’t understand. […] The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
Culture presumes an environment in which deep attention is possible. Increasingly, such immersive reflection is being displaced by an entirely different form of attention: hyperattention.
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