“The worst grotesque situations: believing one knows oneself, believing one knows everything about some topic, believing one has judged with absolute impartiality, believing one will love and be loved forever. In conversation, people think one thing and, in trying to communicate it, say something else. The interlocutor hears one thing, but understands something different. When answering, one does not respond to what the other person initially thought, nor to what the other person said, but to what one has understood. The final result: a conversation between deaf people who do not even know how to listen to themselves.”
― The Dance of Reality: A Psychomagical Autobiography
― The Dance of Reality: A Psychomagical Autobiography
“I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want”
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“I by not doing, not by doing, lost”
― The Divine Comedy
― The Divine Comedy
“Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.”
― Cousin Bette
― Cousin Bette
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