Showing posts with label Pantheon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pantheon. Show all posts

"During her lectures, she explains the difference between the beautiful and the sublime this way: The stars are beautiful – diamonds, twinkles, something you can wish upon. The space in between the stars is the sublime – cold, black, and infinite, something that inspires awe and fear."

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The Body in Question by Jill Ciment

 

"The ancient Greek word for "spectator" was theoros, from which we get the word theoria, theory. Theoria is linked to the verb "to see," theorein, which takes place in a theater, a theatron, to name the act of spectating."

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Tragedy, the Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley

 

"What did she want to ask me? Do I have regrets? Was it worth it? Or maybe she wanted more practical advice...I finally recognized her expression—an amalgamation of fear and awe. The girl wasn't seeking my advice. I was about her age when I, too, saw my first old younger woman."

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Consent by Jill Ciment

 

"The sea, formless, simply beyond compare."

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The Lover by Marguerite Duras

 

"What is faithfulness anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and be faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire, while ardently dreaming of someone else? Is it faithful to make love to your wife while lewdly fantasizing about someone else again and again? Is it faithful to be monogamous if that means deadening your own nature, constantly, in order to be genitally true to someone you love but no longer have physical passion for?"

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Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays by Mary Gaitskill


"If you start life as part of someone else's body, your independence is a dismemberment. Being a couple reminds us, persuades us again, that we are also someone else; of a piece with them."
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Monogamy by Adam Phillips

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