Compass

Book by Mathias Énard · 8 quotes · Appropriation, Loss, Music

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“..life ties knots, life ties knots and they’re rarely those on St. Francis’s cincture; we meet, we run after one another, for years, in the dark, and when we think we finally hold another’s hand in ours, death takes everything away from us.”

Love Death Relationships Loss Fate Futility

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“…hundreds of composers throughout all of Europe, over all of Europe the wind of alterity blows, all these great men use what comes to them from the Other to modify the Self, to bastardize it, for genius wants bastardy, the use of external procedures to undermine the dictatorship of church chant and harmony…”

Art Music Influence Cultural Diversity Appropriation

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“Music is time domesticated, reproducible time, time shaped.”

Time Music Composition

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“Europe sapped Antiquity under the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Egyptians. Our triumphant nations appropriated the universal with their monopoly on science and archaeology, dispossessing the colonize populations by means of this pillage of a past that, as a result, they readily experienced as alien: and so brainwashed Islamist wreckers drive tractors all the more easily through ancient cities since they combine their profoundly uncultivated stupidity with the more or less widespread feeling that this heritage is alien, retroactive emanation of foreign powers.”

History Europe Middle East Exploitation Assimilation Archaeology Appropriation Orientalism

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“Danke für diese diplomatische Nachricht, sie hat mich zum Lachen gebracht – das ist im Augenblick sonst ziemlich schwierig. Du fehlst mir sehr. Oder vielmehr, alles fehlt mir sehr. Ich habe das Gefühl, aus der Welt zu sein, ich schwimme in der Trauer. Ich brauche nur dem Blick meiner Mutter zu begegnen, und schon beginnen wir beide zu weinen. Wir weinen über die Traurigkeit des anderen, über die Leere, die wir auf dem erschöpften Gesicht des anderen sehen. Paris ist ein Grab, nur Erinnerungsfetzen. Ich setze meine Streifzüge durch die literarischen Gefilde des Opiums fort. Ich weiß nicht mehr genau, wie es um mich steht.”

Loss Grief Trauer Leere

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“Le spie sono dei viaggiatori, i viaggiatori sono delle spie. “Non fidarti delle storie dei viaggiatori” dice Sa’di nel Roseto. Loro non vedono niente. Credono di vedere, ma osservano solo riflessi.”

Riflessioni Viaggiatori Spriritualità

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“Hedayat aveva una di quelle ferite del sé che fanno andare nel mondo barcollando, e quella incrinatura si è poi aperta fino a diventare una crepa; e come nell’oppio, come nell’alcol, come in tutto ciò che ti apre in due, non si tratta di una malattia ma di una decisione, la volontà di spezzare l’essere, fino in fondo.”

Essere Spiritualità

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“In der Liebe können wir die Leiden des anderen ebenso wenig teilen wie unsere eigenen heilen.”

Isolation Liebe Einsamkeit

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