3 Quotes by Catherine Millet

في منتصف القرن التاسع عشر، كانت كلمة بودلير الجوهرية هي "حداثة". فبطله هو المتأنق، المتباهي بتفرده.أصبح الفن معاصرا عندما حدثنا عن حياتنا اليومية. وأصبح معاصرا عندما بدأ، على نحو ما، في تحقيق المشروع الحديث بالمعنى الذي قصده بودلير

The distance we set between ourselves and the events of our past life, which reduces their scale, the backlog of things we failed to notice at the time, the logic which connects them, which back then was invisible, the light shed on them by the epoch they belong to, which mankind already considers a moribund piece of history, their ultimate strangeness, which makes us look back on the person we were as though they were a different being, all these things conspire to turn our past into a dream.

I can no longer pretend that I believe in God. It’s highly possible that I lost this belief when I started having sexual relationships.