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Sense and Meaning
“Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense cannot stay still, it seethes with second, third and … Continue reading
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Tagged "All the Names", Borges, butterfly, Chuang Tzu, dream, meaning, Saramago, sense
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No Such Thing as Woman
“What I saw, with jarring clarity, was that there is no such thing as woman. Woman, I realised, is a thing of legend, a phantasm who flies through the world, settling here and there on this or that unsuspecting mortal … Continue reading
Stamped on the Underside of My Memory
“Every aurate woman I have loved in my life, and I use the word loved in its widest sense, has left her impression on me, as the old gods of creation are said to have left their thumbprints on the … Continue reading
Posted in Quotations, Uncategorized
Tagged Ancient Light, John Banville, literature, memory, quotes, the unconscious
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The Rhythm of Silence is the Spring of Words
I.“…thou sweet spring for the thirsty in the desert; it is closed for those who speak there, it is open for those who keep silence there. When the silent man cometh, he findeth the spring.” A Hymn to Thoth from … Continue reading
Posted in Quotations, Uncategorized
Tagged inspiration, language, poetry, silence, Thoth, writing
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The Scent of Autumn Earth
“September 13, 1907 (Friday) . . . never has heather so touched and almost thrilled me as recently, when I found those three twigs in your sweet letter. Since then they have been lying in my Book of Pictures and … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, earth, fall, Letters on Cezanne, Reiner Maria Rilke, scent
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Icy Lechery: Art by Tamara de Lempicka
“Was it true that, according to her final wishes, the ashes of the Polish-Russian artist Tamara de Lempicka were dropped from a helicopter by her daughter Kizette into the crater of the Mexican volcano Popocatépetl? What an Olympian, cataclysmic, magnificent … Continue reading
Posted in Painting, Quotations
Tagged archetypes, art, eroticism, nude, painting, sensuality, sex, symbolism, symbols, Tamara de Lempicka
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The Attraction to the Divine Unknown
“I find it relevant to quote here a formulation devised by Dio of Prusa (‘Dio Chrysostom’), a Greek thinker who lived in a period straddling the first and the second centuries CE. In what I am about to quote, taken … Continue reading
Posted in Quotations
Tagged daimon, daimonion, Dio of Prusa, divinity, gods, Greek myth, myth, mythology, theos
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés on the Animus as a Merchant of Soul
“By classical Jungian definition, animus is the soul-force in women, and is considered masculine. However, many women psychoanalysts, including myself, have, through personal observation, come to refute the classical view and to assert instead that the revivifying source in women … Continue reading
Posted in Animus, Quotations
Tagged animus, archetypes, C.G. Jung, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, depth psychology, feminine, masculine, Soul, symbols, Wild Woman, woman
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The Lake of Dreams, the Sea of Rains, the Gulf of Dews, the Ocean of Fecundity
“What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman? Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, James Joyce, Moon, symbolism, symbols, Ulysses, woman
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