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One thing I learned: it is not true that people understand each other by talking.

Asleep In The Sun

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At times, each of us is the theatre of a drama which is occasioned by several elements: his real loves, a fight, his jealousy, a projected escape, which merge with dream adventures more brutal than the real ones, and the men who are then ransacked by the drama suddenly thrash about, but in silence. They make stiff gestures. They are brusque, taut, set. They hit out as if fighting an invisible soldier. Suddenly they relapse into their torpor; their very physiognomy sinks to the bottom of a swamp of dreams.

jean genet miracle of the rose

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His way of existing in the margins, always on strike, is frightening or exasperating.

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Snakes spend the majority of their time being inactive, so much so that it is not possible to distinguish true sleep from partial sleep or repose; they are fully active only when moved by hunger or sexual stimuli. At other times they may spend days or even weeks lying on a branch without moving.

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groups and individuals contain microfascisms just waiting to crystallize!

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Anselm Kiefer

Pour Georges Bataille, le bleu du ciel

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In Ceylon, a young man on a bicycle passed me at full speed. But a minute later he was beside me, holding his bicycle by one hand. He held out the other, “poor boy, no money.” He had a marvelous brand-new bicycle with a gear box. He seemed to be in good health, young, and enthusiastic. I was very glad to be able to assist him.

Oh! that I might one day beg in a car, and meet a compassionate soul!

- Henri Michaeux, A Barbarian in Asia

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Moreover, it is not the jungle that makes the tiger, but the tiger who chooses to go into the jungle. It also lives in the mountains, in the coldest weather.

All peoples seem to choose a certain type of country to settle in, though they may prosper in several.

The Portuguese in the plains (Portugal, Brazil), the Spanish on high plateaus (Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela, etc.). The Arab is more like himself in the desert (Arabia, Egypt, etc.). It so happens that the cactus (on the plateaus and pampas of South America) is the tightest, the most unapproachable plant, just like the Indian of the same countries.

Most of the trees in Italy are taller than those in France. As soon as one reaches Turin the difference is striking. The leaves of the chestnut trees are heavier in Brussels, lighter in Paris — and as a rule, all the vegetation in the Paris region and Brussels shows a slight tendency of the same kind. Does that simply imply that the Belgian prefers to see good stout chestnut leaves to more delicate ones? and that he chose to live in Belgium for that reason?

Does it mean that it is the sight of the heavier vegetation that has rendered his mind… a little less nimble and a little more fleshy?

Does it follow that drinking the water from the same soil as the plants, surrounded by the same humidity, the same wind, the same tone, and in short, eating qualities of the products of the same soil, he has grown somewhat like them also?

No, one cannot say this, it is much more complicated.

- Henri Michaeux, A Barbarian in Asia

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henri michaeux, a barbarian in asia

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Don’t get in my way, I stand on my own, and you are only a quart of smoke to me.

Danil Kharms

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