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“For Lacan, language is a gift as dangerous to humanity as the horse was to the Trojans: it offers itself to our use free of charge, but once we accept it, it colonizes us.”
― How To Read Lacan
― How To Read Lacan
“I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (...) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are.”
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“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.”
― Wool Omnibus
― Wool Omnibus
“History wanted to be remembered. Evidence hated having to live in dark, hidden places and devoted itself to resurfacing. Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend to it.”
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
“I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
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