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Michel de Certeau
"They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'"
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Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press
Michel de Certeau
#Beautiful Quotes
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“I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.”
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“You are the one that you are looking for.”
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“Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'.”
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“John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a book that will touch your life, so don’t read it sitting down. Stand up, and take a step into the Great Perhaps.”
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“Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”
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“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.”
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“The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.”
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“I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.”
