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“The great, overlooked secret of the eternal return is that it actually serves as the basis for a profound intimacy based not upon the willful suppression of distance, but rather, upon the shared experience of separation carried to its absolute limit.”

The Eroticization of Distance, Joseph D. Kuzma

#The Eroticization of Distance #intimacy #distance #Joseph D. Kuzma

The Book of Promethea, Hélène Cixous; tr. Betsy Wing

“Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathless under the ocean floor.”

“Sometimes our whirlpools and our whirlwinds so coincide that since neither could lash the other to the earth, and neither could weigh down the one who was floating up and unable to hold herself down, one inside the other we rolled into the abyss which was sky maybe, sea maybe..”

#The Book of Promethea #hélène cixous #book #read more #read more women #love #night #ocean

#poem #leonard cohen #city

Vilhelm Hammershøi

White Doors, Strandgade 30, 1899

#vilhelm hammershøi #art #Strandgade #white doors

“The work [of literature] always means: not knowing that art exists already, not knowing that there is already a world.”

— Blanchot, The Space of Literature

#The Space of Literature #maurice blanchot #art #literature

“now when it’s evening

and fatigue rises like a straitjacket

if I refuse to think, if I sleep—

oh what emptiness

a collapsed mass

of blue and red veins

lungs breathing

clots and knots, blooming—

dangerous delusions

at death’s soft edge”

Judith Mészáros, Angeliad

#Judith Mészáros #Angeliad #poem #sleep #evening

“And I too wanted to make our bed everywhere with lost edges where the land can be the sea and close its sheets of waters on us.”

Tomb(e), Hélène Cixous; tr. Laurent Milesi

#Hélène Cixous #bed #sea #water #read more women

Duras, Six Films (Le Navire Night)

#marguerite duras #Le Navire Night

“I am no longer present, I am a thousand pencils, I don’t want to know what they write, I want to disappear amid their motion, which I no longer understand.”

—The Book Against Death, Elias Canetti; tr. Peter Filkins

#elias canetti #pencil #present #writing

“You can write only if you know how to reflect endlessly, mathematically, asking yourself, What’s the name of this thing I am seeing and that I have never before seen? It takes time.” —Hélène Cixous

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#hélène cixous #writing #questions

« Mais c’est dans la ténèbre, et comme ténèbre lui-même, que le corps a été conçu »

“the body was conceived in darkness, and as darkness itself,” writes Jean-Luc Nancy

#Jean-Luc Nancy #darkness #body

“For one must speak of love in the same way as one must love—in the first person. […] l will therefore say I at my own risk and peril. But, dear reader, know this: l will say I in your name.”

“The Silence of Love,” Jean-Luc Marion’s introduction to The Erotic Phenomenon. In the translation of Stephen E. Lewis.

“I need to turn to the other and address myself to her, and thus address her with speech and await her response. […] Precisely by virtue of that of which l cannot speak, l must speak to the other. Thus the erotic reduction redefines the rules of language.”

This is quite something: “wherever a person is found, there is no hell”

“Orpheus’s complex: Eurydice is found everywhere, except in Hell (wherever a person is found, there is no hell, not even Hell)”

On elsewhereness and the time of expectation:

“[The] past will remain definitively over if elsewhere can no longer be expected, if it can no longer happen; by contrast, it will remain eventually provisional for as long as a new expectation can hope for the return of an absence still to come.”

“The lover makes appear the one whom she loves […] as an Orpheus of phenomenality […] makes him emerge from the depths of the unseen”

#Jean-Luc Marion #love #erotic #The Erotic Phenomenon #Past #philosophy