"What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again."

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Source : Maurice Blanchot (1993). “The Infinite Conversation”, p.343, U of Minnesota Press

Maurice Blanchot

#Ideas Quotes #What If Quotes #Doe Quotes

“To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.”
“Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.”

Source : "A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard - review" by Stuart Evers, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.
“The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.”
“I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.”
“I do not believe the promises of the Declaration of Independence are just for the strong, the independent, the healthy. They are for everyone-including unborn children. We are a society with enough compassion and wealth and love to care for both mothers and their children, to seek the promise and potential in every life.”
“I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something worrying is going on lies right here in the Arctic.”
“It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.”
“Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God”

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