"Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence."

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Source : Louise Bourgeois, John Cheim (1988). “Louise Bourgeois: Drawings”

Louise Bourgeois

#Giving Up Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.”
“It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.”
“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”
“Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.”

Source : "Rosetta mission: Philae craft may have bounced during comet landing - as it happened" by Stuart Clark, James Kingsland, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2014.
“When I got the red card all the Chelsea players come around. It felt like I had a lot of babies around me.”

Source : "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Chelsea behaved 'like babies' over red card" by Marcus Christenson, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.
“We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.”
“A utopia cannot, by deï¬nition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.”
“It was important that we kept moving the puck and moving forward as a team. It is good that we practiced today. The rivalry we have against Sweden is very intense. We have had some very physical games against Sweden and we are looking forward to them. We know what to expect.”

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