Fault

I can find fault with each and every one of you: we are built on fault.

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Possessed

Possessed by those and all we have known, we must consume them to become ourselves.

Only

Only our dead parts cannot die.

I do not need

I do not need the dead in my dreams.

No small thing (Hall)

It's no small thing the way a child sees a parent. The world comes in through our mothers and our fathers like light through a stained-glass window, and our infant selves can't help but be coloured by it, then and forever.

Steven Hall, Maxwell's Demon

Nothing to see

There is much in the dark, but nothing to see.

The only truly interesting culture

The only truly interesting culture is the omniculture.

All theology

All theology is justification; most is rationalization.

It is better

It is better to make your abstractions concrete than to make your concretions abstract.

The less...the more

The less you acknowledge the other in the self, the more you will struggle to contend with the other in society.

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It should be obvious

It should be obvious by now that nothing is obvious.

It is life

It is life that produces the expectations that allow one to be (ensure that one is?) disappointed by life.

We prefer to live

We prefer to live in a world made from memories of this world than to live in this world.

What is left? (Winterson)

What is left? What was ever there? Is life any more than a slop bucket of accident and confusion?

Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies

Training

Life is training to disrupt the concluded.

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The intensest palimpsest

Life is the intensest palimpsest, overwritten from breath to breath by the mutually-illegible multiplicity.

Pretension can

Pretension can, in time, push you to inhabit that which begins as pose.