"Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe..."

-- Marguerite Duras

#Space Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Empty Quotes

“Every person's every action has an effect.”
“So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.”
“I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.”
“It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.”
“The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated”
“India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.”
“Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.”

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