"In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky"

-- Jean Genet

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“Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?”
“Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.”

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“I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.”
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
“No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.”
“It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.”
“Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.”
“Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge

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