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Michel de Certeau has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense…
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It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see…
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The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And…
— Rajneesh
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that…
— Henry David Thoreau
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
— William Golding
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It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
— Matthew Henry
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I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone…
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