“Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.”

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”

“Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.”

“Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?”

“What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.”

“The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.”

“You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.”