Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
. . . language is never innocent.
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.
I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.
If you're successful, don't crow. If you're defeated, don't croak.