"The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming â€” what should I do? â€” with an answer taking shape: nothing."

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Source : Georges Perec (1987). “Life, a user's manual: fictions”, Collins Harvill Press

Georges Perec

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“For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.”
“I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.”
“I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.”
“I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience. With these abstract pictures, although the eye recognizes them as photographic rather than painted, the eye also tries to connect them to reality. There's always this association machine working in the brain, and that is why it is important to me that they are actually photographic and not painted.”
“I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.”
“It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.”
“We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.”
“Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.”

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