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Michel de Certeau Quotes: Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
         

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.


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To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.



A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.



The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.



An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.



The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.



More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.



It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.



To walk is to lack a place.

To walk is to lack a place.



The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.



The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.





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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

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He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."

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And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!



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I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.

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