"Love, love will tear us apart, again."

--

Source : Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.77, Faber & Faber

Ian Curtis

“A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role,”
“The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.”
“For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.”
“I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.”
“Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the face of the world what it is, and as we see it, is interesting and instructive. Until we get hold of a group of physical facts, we do not know what practical bearings they may have, though right-minded men know that they contain many precious jewels, which science, or the expert hand of philosophy will not fail top bring out, polished, and bright, and beautifully adapted to man's purposes.”
“Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]”
“We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.”
“What is most important almost always involves the people around us.”

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