"It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement"

-- Jacques Derrida

#Desire Quotes #Return Quotes #Archives Quotes

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
“The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.”
“There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.”
“Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].”
“I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.”
“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”
“Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information your own scouts provided that mattered, not reports from unknown people whose veracity you couldn't prove.”

Source : David Weber (2014). “Safehold Boxed Set 1: Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, and By Heresies Distressed”, p.709, Tor Science Fiction
“There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.”

Source : David Lloyd George (1918). “The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War”

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