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The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a…
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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these…
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like…
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An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
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A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
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It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able…
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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and…
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
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The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
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It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north…
— Wallace Stevens
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The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though…
— Louis Aragon
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I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please…
— Philippe Halsman
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The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
— Michel de Certeau
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Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and…
— Wilfred Owen
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The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry…
— Ezra Pound
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September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This…
— Geoffrey Hill
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Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the…
— Dennis Miller
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In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts...
— Henry David Thoreau
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The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable…
— Ayn Rand
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To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
— Theodore Roethke
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The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .
— Peter Senge
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