"Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can……" — Rabih Alameddine
"Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if only for a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again."
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Rabih Alameddine
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14 Quotes by Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine has 14 quotes on this site.
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I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I…
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By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is…
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Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made…
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Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you…
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original…
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What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?
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I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is…
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...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only…
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I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft…
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I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a…
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The eye always fills in the imperfections.
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I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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