“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
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Een vrouw en jongen in het 17e eeuwse Engeland blijken zich in bizarre 20e eeuwse fantasieën te bevinden.
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Jeanette Winterson
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“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thin...”
“Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated.”
“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other ha...”
“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written...”