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“Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.”
― The Passion According to G.H.
― The Passion According to G.H.
“The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed”
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“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”
― Hotel World
― Hotel World
“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”
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“This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent.”
― Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
― Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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