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asymptotejournal:
The first PETRA conference took place this December, bringing together literary translators from the whole of Europe. Read notes from the conference here.
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“Inexperience is a quality of the human condition. We are born one time only; we...”
– Milan Kundera
“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with...”
– Carl Jung
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives...”
– C. Jung
“When in 1917, Duchamp bought a coat rack on a whim, and, noticing people were tripping over it as it lay on the floor, nailed it there; he trapped the ironies and negations that have thrown such huge shadows on the production of art over the next century. What did he do? He took a prefabricate, manufactured object and removed it from its very purpose; he destroyed its utility. Art became a...
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”
– Carl Jung