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We need always to be returning to the fact of how mysterious these objects called movies are, unlike anything else on earth.

—Stanley Cavell, Themes Out of School

The new library building, which in both its entire layout and its near-ludicrous internal regulation seeks to exclude the reader as a potential enemy, might be described, so Lemoine thought, said Austerlitz, as the official manifestation of the increasingly importunate urge to break with everything which still has some living connection to the past.

—W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz

For in spite of tricks which we shall presently describe and which created the image which we shall always have of him, he knew very well that his famous look was identical with the thing at which he was looking, that he would never attain true possession of himself, but simply that listless sampling of himself which is characteristic of reflective knowledge.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire