"Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning."

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Source : New York Magazine Vol. 19, October 06, 1986.

Philippe Starck

#Symbols Quotes

“A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.”
“Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.”
“Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.”
“I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.”

Source : "The New Moon's Arms". Book by Nalo Hopkinson, 2007.
“. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.”
“Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.”

Source : Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.”
“And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.”

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