"The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire."

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Source : Jacques Lacan (2013). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan”, p.321, Routledge

Jacques Lacan

#Desire Quotes #Guilty Quotes #Given Quotes

“A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.”
“I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.”
“I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.”

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“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.”
“But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.30, Penguin
“Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.”
“each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.”
“Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.”

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