Quotes 2017 #216

"Why can't we get along without bodies? What leads us to go beyond the phenomenon or the perceived? Leibniz often says that if bodies did not exist outside of perception, the only perceiving substances would be either human or angelic, to the detriment of the variety and of the animality of the universe." (Deleuze)

French Lessons #215

"C'est donc la peur qui m'a enlevé l'envie du voyage." (Jean Giono)

Quotes 2017 #215

"A bifurcation, like the exit from the temple, is called a point in the neighborhood of series' divergence. Borges, one of Leibniz's disciples, invoked the Chinese philosopher-architect Ts'ui Pên, the inventor of the 'garden with bifurcating paths,' a baroque labyrinth whose infinite series converge or diverge, forming a webbing of time embracing all possibilities." (Deleuze)

French Lessons #214

"Mais au contraire le néant QUI N'EST PAS ne saurait avoir qu'une existence empruntée..." (Sartre)

Quotes 2017 #214

"A complaining guitar sound---one high, stretched, strident note that gave off the feel of someone trying to scrape dirt off his hand with a knife---rang through "30 Seconds Over Tokyo," growing more and less and more and less accepting as the drama took shape, nothing-you-can-do-about-it turning into I-can't-take-it-anymore and turning back." (Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come)

French Lessons #213

"Les phrases de Kérouac sont aussi sobres qu'un dessin japonais, pure ligne tracée par une main sans support, et qui traverse les âges et les règnes. Il fallait un vrai alcoolique pour attendre à cette sobriété-là." (Deleuze & Parnet)

Quotes 2017 # 213

"I am the prior of Clusa, and I know well how to make discourse, and how to write. In Aquitaine there is no learning, they are rustics all: and if any one in Aquitaine has learnt any grammar, he straightway thinks himself Virgil. In France is learning, but not much. But in Lombardy, where I mostly studied, is the fountain of learning." (Benedict of Clusa, quoted by Helen Waddell in her The Wandering Scholars)