I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are.
Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right. - Roger Caillois
Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right.
- Roger Caillois
In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that … - Roger Caillois
In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that …
We must train ourselves in courage and generosity. - Roger Caillois
We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of preca… - Roger Caillois
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of preca…
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in th… - Roger Caillois
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in th…
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the univ… - Roger Caillois
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the univ…
Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect up… - Roger Caillois
Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect up…
The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality - Roger Caillois
The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
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