"The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present."

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Storm Jameson

#Past Quotes #Able Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.”
“There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Space of Literature”, p.264, U of Nebraska Press
“Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?”
“When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.”
“I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.”
“Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.”
“I'd most likely be a helicopter pilot, or I'd own a really cool surf hotel somewhere on a beach.”
“Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.”

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