Quotes Tagged "context"

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject... Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire. The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).

Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised; and the rememberer and the remembered; and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree; no not anyone with himself; and the whole earth too is a point.

Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend.

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

The Ferrari is exactly the same in the human context as the peacock's tail is on the peacock.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there was a focus on self-destruction.

As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.