Yoon Kim @nicoscosc

Joined March 2018

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Yoon Kim @nicoscosc

6 hours ago

You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart… It may seem ridiculous, but [his head] reminded me of General Washington’s head… Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. #MelvilleMonday 🐳

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a day ago

“No one’s voice, again.” [Niemandes Stimme, wieder.] — Paul Celan, from “An Eye, Open”

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a day ago

Sunday.

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2 days ago

“The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.” — Blanchot (the opening of WD)

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2 days ago

“Forgetting is the sun: memory gleams through reflection, reflecting forgetting and drawing from this reflection the light—amazement and clarity—of forgetting.” — Blanchot

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3 days ago

“A desire for the indefinite, A lucid desire for the indefinite.” — Pessoa (writing as Álvaro de Campos)

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3 days ago

“I suppose life, I suppose the world, is a nightmare, but I can’t escape from it… And I cannot reach salvation. It’s shielded from us. Yet I do my best and I find my salvation to be the act of writing, of going in for writing in a rather hopeless way.” — Borges at eighty

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4 days ago

“When there is nothing left, there will still be sand. There will still be the desert to conjugate the nothing.” (Jabès, The Book of Questions)

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4 days ago

“When adventure has reached its farthest point where the sea listens only to the sea, writing suddenly appears as a broken coastline which no map records.” (Jabès, The Book of Questions)

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4 days ago

“Don’t you also harbor a secret pain, when the eye of the heavens is taken out of Nature, and the wide earth thus lies there like a riddle whose solution is missing?” — Hölderlin, from the early fragment “Communism of Spirits” (quoted in Joseph Albernaz, Common Measures)

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Yoon Kim @nicoscosc

5 days ago

“I always kept a quotation mark to my left and another to my right… That image of myself in quotes satisfied me, and not just superficially.” — Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (trans. Idra Novey)

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5 days ago

“Every book is a Moebius strip, in itself therefore finite and infinite, infinitely finite on all sides, opening a new margin on each page, each margin becoming wider, with a greater capacity for sense and secrecy.” — Jean-Luc Nancy, On the Commerce of Thinking

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Yoon Kim @nicoscosc

5 days ago

“Definition is always finite, but I keep straining for the faraway; I search beyond the barricades (of words, of senses, of the world) for infinity, where all, all the lines meet.” (Nabokov, The Gift)