quotes about Rupture
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
-- Alain BadiouSource : Alain Badiou (2005). “Metapolitics”, p.7, Verso
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I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
-- Ayad AkhtarSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.
-- Georges Bataille -
Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.
-- Jhonen Vasquez -
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The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.
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I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.
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When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.
-- Michel Martelly -
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
-- Shoshana ZuboffSource : Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books
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Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
-- Spider RobinsonSource : Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson (2010). “Variable Star”, p.212, Macmillan
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The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.
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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
-- William ShirleySource : William Shirley, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1973). “Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760”
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Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in both senses) of instant reaction; so divisive, it makes Brexit, the Labour leadership and the US Presidential election seem lesser ruptures.
-- David BennunSource : Source: thequietus.com
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Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.
-- Rosalind E. KraussSource : Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.115, MIT Press