"Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain."

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Source : David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.58, Vintage

David Abram

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“My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.”
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“The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.”
“I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.”

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“What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.”
“Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.”

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