"...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldnâ€™t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack."

Source : Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (1988). “The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955”, p.223, CUP Archive

Jacques Lacan

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“I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.
“No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.”
“It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.”

Source : "Ariel Rechtshaid: the producer behind Vampire Weekend, Haim and Sky Ferreira" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2013.
“Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'”

Source : "Ron Conway: S.F. mover and shaker" by Heather Knight, www.sfgate.com. August 27, 2012.
“The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.”
“Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows...HE KNOWS...Is that not good news?”
“The temples perish, but the God still lives.”
“Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.”

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