Faizan Moquim

Assistant Professor of English, VIPS-TC, GGSIPU

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[...]the superstition of the modern technological mind, according to which quantifiable things are inherently “truer” than those which can only be grasped qualitatively, since only the former submit to
calculation.
-Medard Boss on statistical dream research

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April Alliston, Marshall Brown, Page du Bois, Sabry Hafez, Ursula Heise, Djelal Kadir, David Pike, Sheldon Pollock, Bruce Robbins, Haruo Shirane, Jane Tylus, and Pauline Yu. The broadest possible definition of world literature would simply be: what these people know.
-D. Damrosch

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The way we imagine comparative literature is a mirror of how we see the world.
- Franco Moretti

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I'm not sure how clearly it is seen outside editorial offices that when Ram wrote The Unquite woods he was pioneering not just Indian environmental history but also a somewhat new way of writing an Indian monograph.
-Rukun Advani

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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.

-Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry"

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I work to please myself. But I'm the hardest person to please... I'm still not sure if movies are an art form. And if they're not, let them inscribe on my tombstone what they could about any craftsman who loves his job: Here Lies Vincente Minnelli. He died of hard work.
-Minnelli

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Wish fulfillment!

I tell you solemnly, that I often wanted to become an insect. But I wasn't even granted that. (NFU, Dostoevsky)

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. (Metamorphosis, Kafka)

[Matt Groening's Life In Hell @LifeInHellStrip]

How To Be A Clever Film Critic, 1985

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Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony.
Kierkegaard

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"[...] the text becomes a polished surface for the reader
in which the prime meaning to be discerned is the reader’s own reflection."
William McDonald on Kierkegaard's works

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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society, and
state in which we live. The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Gadamer, Truth and Method

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But nowhere in the Anglo-American community of letters have I seen it argued that some pornographic books are interesting and important works of art.
- Sontag "The Pornographic Imagination", 1967

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—something that is useful in interdisciplinary discussion, namely, the ability to live with open aporias and surpluses of nonconsensus."

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The philosophers' ancient vice, as a profession—their chronic deficit of consensus—turns out to be an ultramodern interdisciplinary virtue: above all, a proficiency in surviving conversational confusion without discouragement.
-Odo Marquard

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"Apparently philosophers bring with them from the tradition of their discipline—a two and a half thousand year old tradition of not arriving at agreement on fundamental positions—

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The more modern the modern world becomes,
the more unavoidable the human sciences become.
-Odo Marquard

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The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography
David Gordon White

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And God said [to AI], "Let there be light," and there was light!

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Ganges water and the Mughals
- K.T. Achaya, Indian Food (1994)

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Two lovers!
From Hisham Ibn-Al-Kalbi's Kitab Al-Asnam [The Book of Idols]