Quotes About Meaning

Questa maniera di scrivere, che mi pare andare nella direzione della verità, mi aiuta a uscire dalla solitudine e dall'oscurità del ricordo individuale tramite la scoperta di un significato più generale. Ma sento che qualcosa in me oppone resistenza, vorrei conservare di mia madre delle immagini puramente affettive, il calore o le lacrime, senza dar loro un senso.

Est-ce que tu pars à Noël ? » = ce serait mieux que tu partes, je ne serais pas obligé de venir te voir Ã¢â'¬â€œ ou, ce serait bien si tu restais ? Il se peut aussi que ces phrases n'aient pas d'importance pour lui, qu'elles soient de celles qu'on dit pour dire...

Elle était inhérente à sa présence à lui dans ma vie, qu'il avait transformée en un étrange et continuel palimpseste.

El amor, la libertad. La impresión vibrante de mi vida también es surrealista.

Den mand der vendte tilbage den aften, er ikke længere den samme som ham jeg gik rundt med indeni gennem det år hvor han var her, og derefter mens jeg skrev. Den mand kommer jeg aldrig til at se igen. Ikke desto mindre er det denne uvirkelige, næsten ikke eksisterende tilbagevenden der giver min lidenskab den sande mening. Som er at være uden mening - og i to år at have været den mest voldsomme og mest uforklarlige virkelighed.

La fin de mes livres, sauf La place et Une femme, a été souvent insipide, inutile, rupture de l'écriture plutôt que conclusion, fin.

J'ai voulu faire de cette passion une Å"uvre d'art dans ma vie, ou plutôt cette liaison est devenue passion parce que je l'ai voulue Å"uvre d'art (Michel Foucault : le souverain bien, c'est de faire de sa vie une Å"uvre d'art).

Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult or contradictory) and another in which we have no idea of what we are saying. In this second level of speaking there are repeating words, phrases, and even sounds that function as magnets of unconscious meaning, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas. He called such markers in speech 'signifiers.

the essence of a communication is often distorted in translation.

A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning.

An organization's culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need.

As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.

'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

I would passionately make the case that the harder the times, the more we need things that aren't just about keeping our job and making a buck - important though those things are. Arts programming isn't some sort of add-on or ornamental luxury.