"Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers."

-- Jacques Lacan

#Relation Quotes #Position Quotes

“With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.”
“The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,”
“Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press
“Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.”
“Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually.”
“Even if you're theÂ worst writerÂ in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.”
“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”
“Habit is stronger than nature.”

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