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Original:
“Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.”
Œuvres II (1942), Paul Valéry, éd. Gallimard, coll. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1960, p. 907
(via bashakella)
“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
“I felt at home, too much so – perhaps that is what stopped me from reading on. Case closed there and then.”
This Side of the Pond | Beckett’s Reading List
Samuel Beckett on reading Franz Kafka’s The Castle.
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (via azspot)
Superfluidity is anything but a child, then, wandering Athens as he is right now, good man.
Here is the quotation in the original Latin:
“Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.”
— From ‘Orator Ad M. Brutum’, 46 BCE
(via superfluidity)
“I don’t speak of vengeance or forgiveness; forgetting is the only vengeance and the only forgiveness.”
Jorge Luis Borges, “Fragmentos de un evangelio apócrifo”, Elogio de la sombra, my transl.
In the original:
Yo no hablo de venganzas ni de perdones; el olvido es la única venganza y el único perdón.
“…sexually [Dr. Aziz] was a snob. This had puzzled and worried Fielding. Sensuality, as along as it is straightforward, did not repel him, but this derived sensuality—the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful and among eye-flies if she isn’t—was alien to his own emotions, and he felt a barrier between himself and Aziz whenever it arose. It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that saints retreat into the Himalayas.”
