Monday, December 30, 2002
�People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.�
- Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934), Belgian Situationist philosopher: �The Revolution of Everyday Life�, 1967; translated 1983.
�Alcohol doesn�t console, it doesn�t fill up anyone�s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn�t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.�
- Marguerite Duras (1941 � 1996), French author: �Alcohol� from �Practicalities�, 1987, translated 1990.
�What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of a precipice � the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.�
- Wyndham Lewis (1882 � 1957), British author and painter: �There Is a Limit, Beyond Which There Is Nothing� from �The Demon of Progress in the Arts�, 1954.
�I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.�
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 � 1986), Argentinian author: �A New Refutation of Time� from �Labyrinths�, 1964.
- Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934), Belgian Situationist philosopher: �The Revolution of Everyday Life�, 1967; translated 1983.
�Alcohol doesn�t console, it doesn�t fill up anyone�s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn�t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.�
- Marguerite Duras (1941 � 1996), French author: �Alcohol� from �Practicalities�, 1987, translated 1990.
�What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of a precipice � the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.�
- Wyndham Lewis (1882 � 1957), British author and painter: �There Is a Limit, Beyond Which There Is Nothing� from �The Demon of Progress in the Arts�, 1954.
�I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.�
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 � 1986), Argentinian author: �A New Refutation of Time� from �Labyrinths�, 1964.
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