Other Voices, Other Thoughts [on Appearances]

Lucretius: "Nohing appears as it should in a world where nothing is certain. The only thing certain is the existence of a secret violence that makes everything uncertain."

Juan garcía Ponce: "Nuestro mundo, o en todo caso nuestra cultura, es una pura apariencia sin sentido que no logra ocultar su irrealidad. Pero quizás ésta no sea más que una nueva manifestación del carácter negativo del pensamiento. Ante él, la posición más segura es aceptar el valor de las apariencias." ('El Valor de las Apariencias')

Hélène Cixous: "I do not want my soul to be clothed in a borrowed appearance which will phantomize me. The entire ambition of the young man is to deconstruct the ties of kinship and of appearance and to remake for himself a sublime kinship." ('"Mamãe, disse ele," or Joyce's second hand')

Clarice Lispector: 'My appearance deceives me.' (The Foreign Legion)