"The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken."

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Helen Oyeyemi

#Catholic Quotes #Language Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.”
“Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a societyâ€™s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?”
“The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.”

Source : Charles Rosen (2001). “Critical Entertainments”, p.295, Harvard University Press
“Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.”
“At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.”

Source : "INSIDE BUZZFEED: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved New Media Brand". Interview with Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2012.
“Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.”

Source : "Tales of Moonlight and Rain". Book by Ueda Akinari, www.newyorker.com. 1776.
“Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.”
“I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I dont know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.”

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