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Michel de Certeau

"A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility of two thing being in the same location (place). The law of the 'proper' rules in the place: the elements taken into consideration are beside one another, each situated in its own 'proper' and distinct location, a location it defines. A place is thus an instantaneous configuration of positions. It implies an indication of stability."

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.117, Univ of California Press

Michel de Certeau

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“What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.”
“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”
“Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.”
“Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.”
“I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.”

Source : "The Ghost Writer". Book by Philip Roth, 1979.
“Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.”
“Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.”

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