“Elegance is not about being noticed, it’s about being remembered”

“Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.”

“The coming being is whatever being.”

“AHH I MISS U TOO!!”

“Further expanding the already large class of Foucauldian apparatuses, I shall cal an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, determine, intercept, model, control , or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings. Not only, therefore, prisons, madhouses, the panopticon, schools, confession, factories, disciplines, juridical measures, and so forth (whose connection with power is in a certain sense evident), but also the pen, writing, literature, philosophy, agriculture, cigarettes, navigation, computers, cellular telephones and - why not - language itself, which is perhaps the most ancient of apparatuses - one in which thousands and thousands of years ago a primitive inadvertently let himself be captured, probably without realizing the consequences that he was about to face.”

“She could sense it very clearly: for me, no less than for her, the past counted far more than the present, remembering something far more than possessing it. Compared to memory, every possession can only ever seem disappointing, banal, inadequate ... She understood me so well! My anxiety that the present 'immediately' turned into the past so that I could love it and dream about it at leisure was just like hers, was identical. It was 'our' vice, this: to go forwards with our heads forever turned back.”

“Probabilmente qualche altro inquilino si era accorto di quell'acqua che scorreva fuori da quella porta, ma si era ben guardato dall'avvisare qualcuno, il portiere: la civiltà di massa ha questo pregio, che ciascuno può annegare liberamente senza che gli altri gli diano fastidio nel tentativo di salvarlo. È in fondo una forma di delicatezza e di rispetto dell'opinione altrui di morire da sé.”