« The caducity arouses two opposite feelings: that of the disappearance of all things, inescapable and already in the process of operating, that of the miracle, of the grace of what appears. This combination of two feelings - the attraction to death and the attraction of what is present there, offered for a moment, precious: the ephemeral - arouses both melancholy and joy, a joy all the more vivid when one measures its fragility. »
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Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
On the margins of the days |
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
On the margins of the days
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« The "what-good" that everyone knows at one time or another when he wonders what makes him run, get busy or write, is little, just a sign of weariness, of flexing, compared to the devastation that the death drive produces when it gives itself free rein. »
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Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
On the margins of the nights |
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
On the margins of the nights
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« No, definitely, a book is not made. It is written, it advances like a blind man who palpates the walls and invisible objects around him. We do not require a writer to be crazy, only disoriented. We want to meet a blind man who makes us, for a time at least, visionary. »
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Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
On the margins of the nights |
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
On the margins of the nights
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