Famous quotes containing the words external and/or affairs:
“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs ... and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)