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Simone Weil (1909-1943) in her schoolgirl years "Love is not consolation. It is light.” “All sins are attempts to fill...

Phil Spector, 1958 "Little symphonies for the kids." "I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide...

Elfride Petri, Martin Heidegger with their two sons, Jörg and Hermann,1928 "The possible ranks higher than the actual." "Transcendence constitutes...

Françoise Gilot “Since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total,...

Emil Cioran in Romania, before 1947 - “What do you do from morning to night?" - "I endure myself.” “The real,...

George Hoyningen-Huene, Diana Vreeland ''Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.'' “The only...

Roland Barthes after his BA in 1935 “Language is never innocent.” “I am interested in language because it wounds or...

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self portrait, 1970s Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith (Neckbrace), New York, 1977 . “Everything distracted...

Iain Banks, Map of the island from The Wasp Factory, 1984 ... “All reality is a game.” “It's a library,...

Elsa Triolet "All the other cities of the world are simply branches of Paris." "There's no place where one can...