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‘When he was buried, my soul reposed in peace and quiet and in such a fragrance of blood that I could not bear the idea of washing away that blood which had flowed from him onto me.’
Saint Catherine of Siena
Stravinsky talking about Ravel after hearing he turned down the prestigious Prix de Rome: “He rejected it but his music accepts it.”
‘Dialogue, when it is really open to the other, when it is goodwill that is not some vague expectation but an active desire to receive, to listen, to admit the universe of another, could not proceed to its ultimate conclusions without the sacrifice of one of the partners: that is to say, without repudiating itself as dialogue. Truly to engage in a dialogue would be to question one’s own being through the information that comes from another. It is to accept the risk that the other might remold us in his image and destroy all that makes us what we are.’
-Raymond Carpentier quoted in Kevin Hart’s The Dark Gaze. (Friendship is accepting that risk.)
‘…friendship is the truth of the disaster.’ (Blanchot letter to Bataille)
In The Coming Community, Agamben recounts the following, as told by Walter Benjamin to Ernst Bloch: “The Hassidim tell a story about the world to come that says everything there will be just as it is here. Just as our room is now, so it will be in the world to come; where our baby sleeps now, there too it will sleep in the other world. And the clothes we wear in this world, those too we will wear there. Everything will be as it is now, just a little different.”
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