"Je n’ai jamais cru que la liberté de l’homme consistât à faire ce qu’il veut, mais bien à ne jamais faire ce qu’il ne veut pas..." (Rousseau. Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire. Sixième Promenade.) 「わたしはいちどたりとも、したいことを…
"No, I won't amount to anything. I can't even bring myself to want anything. I don't want to be famous. The idea scares me, as if it meant doing something wrong. I'll never amount to anything, you can be sure of that." (Thomas Mann. Budden…
"For even though I believe that thinking involves rising oneself above primitive things, an essential part of thought is that it should remain in touch with immediate experience." (Adorno. Lectures on Negative Dialectics.) 「考えることには…
"Do you know Faulcner [sic]? If so, I'd like to know what you think of this work. I am currently reading Lumière d'août." (Benjamin. A Letter to Adorno. Paris; May 7, 1940) 「フォクネ[フォークナー]のことを知っているかい? もし知っていた…
""To read what was never written." Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances." (Benjamin. "On the Mimetic Faculty.") 「「書かれたことのないものを読むこと」。そのような読解は最古…