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...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality” -luce irigaray

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Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not …

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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary tra…

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Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

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letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

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Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

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Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for de…

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Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as …

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Every desire has a relation to madness.

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Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

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