"...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materialityâ€ -luce irigaray"

-- Luce Irigaray

#Distance Quotes #Eye Quotes #Smell Quotes

“I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.”
“Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.”
“I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.”
“Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us”
“Basically it's the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they're still human and they still have flaws just like everyone else. So that was the real meaning behind "Dollhouse", at least how it related to me because it's something I was annoyed with at the time.”
“Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe.”

Source : Richard Tarnas (2006). “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View”, p.65, Penguin
“When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.”
“It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.”

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