"If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience."

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Jacques Lacan

#Reality Quotes #Facts Quotes #Sexuality Quotes

“This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.”
“In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.”
“I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.”
“There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”
“I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.”
“I wanna be selective... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.”
“And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.”
“Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.”

Source : David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA

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