"It is on a day like this one,……" — Georges Perec
"It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don't know how to live and you will never know"
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8 Quotes by Georges Perec
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Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes,…
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Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and…
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Question your tea spoons.
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What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend…
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The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming…
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This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it,…
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From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling…
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