December 2011
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L’homme n’est rien, l’oeuvre – tout
– “The man is nothing, the work - all”, Gustave Flaubert, Letter to George Sand, 1875
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In the tragedy in question, for example, he condemned the ideas but admired the...
– Gustave Flaubert, Pt. II, Ch. III, Madame Bovary, 1857
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We fear death, we shudder at life’s instability, we grieve to see the flowers...
– Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (from peachlatkeens; via yama-bato)
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words...
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, Translation by Richard Howard, 1978
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