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"Ladies' fashions are one ofthe most subtle reagents ofany culture. It is enough just to glance at a woman's dress to understand the dominant spirit and tone of the entire culture in which such a fashion is permissible. The link between the wigs, beauty-spots, farthingales and refined affectations of the age of Louis XIV, on the one hand, and the rationalism, artificiality and elegant atheism of this century, on the other, is as firm as it is between the pseudo-antique, chilly and simple costume of the Directorate and the similarly pseudo-antique enthusiasm for universal citizenship. The bustles ofthe 1880s definitely show the deformity of soul that developed in this moribund era, weighed down by the censorship ofpositivism; and so on, and so on. " - Pavel Florensky (posted for the italicized part, I'm ambivalent as to the rest)
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"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank." -
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Proust on hidden details in fashion:
"I would discover in the blouse beneath it a thousand details of execution which had had every chance of remaining there unperceived, like those parts of an orchestral score to which the composer has devoted infinite labour albeit they may never reach the ears of the public: or in the sleeves of the jacket that lay folded across my arm I would see, I would drink in slowly, for my own pleasure or from affection for its wearer, some exquisite detail, a deliciously tinted strip, a lining of mauve satinette which, ordinarily concealed from every eye, was yet just as delicately fashioned as the outer parts, like those gothic carvings on a cathedral, hidden on the inside of a balustrade eighty feet from the ground, as perfect as are the bas-reliefs over the main porch, and yet never seen by any living man until, happening to pass that way upon his travels, an artist obtains leave to climb up there among them, to stroll in the open air, sweeping the whole town with a comprehensive gaze, between the soaring towers.""He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."Comment
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/\ the awesomeness. please x-post in the fashion quotes thread.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Reading Proust, there are long stretches where I'm bored to death and don't understand why he receives such praise... but then, a gem such as the one above hits and its momentum carries me on for another 40 or so pages. (cross posted)"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."Comment
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"Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or, then again, the peop
le you love: one by one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you lose them you can never get them back. Your search for replacements never goes well. It's all very painful - as painful as actually being cut with a knife. You will be turning thirty soon, Mr. Kawana, which means that, from now on, you will gradually enter that twilight portion of life - you will be getting older." - 1Q84Comment
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For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured - disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui - in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off. All the while someone is eating the bread of life and drinking the wine, some dirty fat cockroach of a priest who hides away in the cellar guzzling it, while up above in the light of the street a phantom host touches the lips and the blood is pale as water. And out of the endless torment and misery no miracle comes forth, no microscopic vestige even of relief. Only ideas, pale, attenuated ideas which have to be fattened by slaughter; ideas which come forth like bile, like the guts of a pig when the carcass is ripped open.
Henry Miller, Tropic of CancerFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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His own erotic dream consists in projecting the
unreal dynamic of his sensuous enjoyment on to
characters who are not dreaming but acting....
Therefore the more this eroticism is dreamt, the
more it requires a fiction from which dreams are
excluded and where debauchery is fully actualized.
- Maurice Blanchot Lautréamont and Sade(1949)Are you afraid of women, Doctor?
Of course.
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THE FINE PRINT: Applicable to everything.
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i can predict the future like miss cleo the psychicComment
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The future is merely an illusion, people spend way too little time in the present.Hi. I like your necklace. - It's actually a rape whistle, but the whistle part fell off.Comment
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was quoting Jay-Z in the post above, but i entirely agree with what you just said.Comment
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Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
- Martha Graham(1894-1991)Are you afraid of women, Doctor?
Of course.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped- Elbert Hubbard
The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.” - Elbert Hubbard
if you cant answer a mans argument all is not lost, you can still call him vile names - Elbert Hubbard“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee:
"All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge."
"There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level."
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
"Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing."
... there're just too many insightful statements from him to list all... but can find many here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bruce_LeeComment
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