"I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going."

-- Jacques Derrida

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“The present moment is all we will ever have. Only the forms change. Someone living in the actual 1890s would have the same feelings of what's modern and what's old-fashioned that we do now and that people will have 100 years from now. The forms change but the feelings are the same.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Leben verstehen wir Deutschen vielleicht nicht, aber sterben, das kÃ¶nnen wir fabelhaft! (We, the germans, might not be able to live, but to die, that we marvellously)”
“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”

Source : George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation
“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
“In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.”
“Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.”
“If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.”
“She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.”

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