Blanchot The Most High Quotes & Sayings

Grab your parachute because this woman will fly you to the peaks of ecstasy and drive you crazy enough to make you jump off. — Athena Starwoman

If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don't have to know any higher math ... — Charlie Munger

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists. — Max Beerbohm

Sometimes life just hands you more than you take. Then you just accept. — Charlaine Harris

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently. — Samuel R. Delany

He pulled me up into the world of advanced literature, where you wrote essays about a line of Dante, where nothing could be made complex enough, where art dealt with the supreme, not in a high-flown sense because it was the modernist canon with which we were engaged, but in the sense of the ungraspable, which was best illustrated by Blanchot's description of Orpheus's gaze, the night of the night, the negation of the negation, which of course was in some way above the trivial and in many ways wretched lives we lived, but what I learned was that also our ludicrously inconsequential lives, in which we could not attain anything of what we wanted, nothing, in which everything was beyond our abilities and power, had a part in this world, and thus also in the supreme, for books existed, you only had to read them, no one but myself could exclude me from them. You just had to reach up. — Karl Ove Knausgard

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict. — Evgeny Morozov