Going Quotes (page 579)
![Robert W. Service quote: "Our breath is brief, and being so. Let's make our heaven here..."](/pic/270703/600x316/quotation-robert-w-service-our-breath-is-brief-and-being-so-lets-make.jpg)
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In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.
Alice Hoffman
But it must be seen that the term 'catastrophe' has this 'catastrophic' meaning of the end and annihilation only in a linear vision of accumulation and productive finality that the system imposes on us. Etymologically, the term only signifies the curvature, the winding down to the bottom of a cycle leading to what can be called the 'horizon of the event,' to the horizon of meaning, beyond which we cannot go. Beyond it, nothing takes place that has meaning for us - but it suffices to exceed...
Jean Baudrillard
![J. K. Rowling quote: "And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the..."](/pic/270550/600x316/quotation-j-k-rowling-and-that-boys-yelled-mr-weasley-over-the-tumult.jpg)
![Tupac Shakur quote: "And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war..."](/pic/270465/600x316/quotation-tupac-shakur-and-did-you-ever-stop-to-think-that-im-old-enough.jpg)
![Woody Allen quote: "You'll find as you go through life that great depth and..."](/pic/270449/600x316/quotation-woody-allen-youll-find-as-you-go-through-life-that-great-depth.jpg)