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Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My...

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Judith ButlerFrames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we se...

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Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly syn...

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Terry EagletonLiterary Theory: An Introduction

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one...

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I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of...

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Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can...

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I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable...

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Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

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When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

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It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the ...

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In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even m...

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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

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Gilles DeleuzeA Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

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Gilles DeleuzeFrancis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation