"I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself."

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Marina Abramovic

#Cutting Quotes #Blood Quotes #Way Quotes

“I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.”
“No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.”
“Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods....of the shore....of the meadows....of the night....of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.”
“These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.”
“Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.”
“It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.”
“You know who you are, but know not who you could be.”
“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.”

Source : "Showcase". Book by Roy Newquist, 1966.

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