If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and from what their phonographic labels pretended they were – since it's in ourselves that the silence exists. It was while the sounds were still mysterious that it would have been really interesting to render the mystery palpable and transferable.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: silence sound recording



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Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: nature dinosaurs



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I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: knowledge thomas-edison



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There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: pain wounds suffering healing



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And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays...

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: supernatural sound



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Brunettes are full of electricity.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: women electricity brunette



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Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: creativity uncertainty



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The Android, as we've said, is only the first hours of Love, immobilized, the hour of the ideal made eternal prisoner

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

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Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: past voice noise sound recording



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Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Tags: feelings thoughts frontiers



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