"The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth."

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Source : Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

Maurice Blanchot

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Memorial Quotes

“Life is a beautiful struggle, but life is worth living”
“Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.”
“I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.”
“CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.”

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“I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.”

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“You should be treating yourself like you are your own best friend.”
“If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the sum of her experiences, though it runs like veins of brilliant metal through all three. It is an inner faculty that recognizes the animating mysteries of the world because it is made of the same substance”
“All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!”

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