Extraits

Passage de Jeanette Winterson dans "Gut symmetries"

p.11
“This is the difficulty. Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of humankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe l’oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people’s psychology with my own. I say I am open-minded but what I think is.”

Jeanette Winterson dans "Oranges are not the only fruits" :
p.156
“People do go back, but they don’t survive, because two realities are clailong them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what’s left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think that you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”.

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