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Chris Lavergne

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4,096 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“I am furious with you, but I love you very dearly.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
Tagged: Love
“It comes out thus — follow me, Tremens: space is God, and matter is Christ, and time is the Holy Ghost.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
Tagged: Three Is The Number, Secularized Theology
“When I was seventeen, I used to write on average two poems a day, each of them taking me about twenty minutes. Their quality was doubtful, but I didn’t even try to write better then, thinking that I was performing little miracles and that over miracles I didn’t need to think. Now I know that, indeed, reason is a negative part of creativity and inspiration a positive one, but only through their secret conjunction is the white spark born, the electrical flicker of perfect creation.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
Tagged: Aging, Youth, Reason
“Is there some truth that is revealed when lovers argue? No. Arguing is to a relationship what masturbation is to sex.”
— Simon Critchley, ABC of Impossibility
Tagged: Relationships
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, A Lifetime of Peace
Tagged: Conservation, Personal History, The Continuation
“It is impossible to point out stupidity without it pointing back at you.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV: 1995 - 2000
Tagged: Dealing With Ignorance
“There is no poverty and no wealth. There is merely an impoverished definition of wealth — in terms of economics and calculation. Unfortunately, the entire world’s poor have signed up to this definition which makes them poor to the second degree.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV: 1995 - 2000
Tagged: Wealth, Poverty, Reality Construction, Third World, Illusion of Captial
“Since the media always make you out to say the opposite of what you say, you should have the courage always to say that opposite of what you think.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Media Manipulation, Lie to the Media Because They Will Lie About You
“True poetry is what which has lost all the distinctive signs of poetry. If poetry exists, it is anywhere but in poetry. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Poetry
“Man has never signified death for woman, as she signifies it for man. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Death