AINSI SOIT-IL.

"Rereading, an operation contrary to the commercial and ideological habits of our society, which would have us “throw away” the story once it has been consumed (“devoured”), so that we can then move on to another story, buy another book, and which is tolerated only in certain marginal categories of readers (children, old people, and professors), rereading is here suggested at the outset, for it alone saves the text from repetition (those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere), multiplies it in its variety and its plurality: rereading draws the text out of its internal chronology (“this happens before or after that”) and recaptures a mythic time (without before or after)…rereading is no longer consumption but play (that play which is the return of the different)."

- Roland Barthes, S/Z (via autonomistgoth)

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"When evening has come, I return to my house and go into my study. At the door I take off my clothes of the day, covered with mud and mire, and I put on my regal and courtly garments; and decently reclothed, I enter the an­cient courts of ancient men, where, received by them lovingly, I feed on the food that alone is mine and that I was born for. There I am not ashamed to speak with them and to ask them the reason for their actions; and they in their humanity reply to me. And for the space of four hours I feel no boredom, I forget every pain, I do not fear poverty, death does not frighten me. I deliver myself entirely to them."

- Niccolò Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori (December 10, 1513)

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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid."

- Søren Kierkegaard (via scientificphilosopher)

"Silence is also conversation."

- Ramana Maharshi
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