Detour Quotes - page 2

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
What I remember and where I start is with the detail that is the equivalent of the punctum, the moment of a life, the shape of an object, the darkness of a room, that solicits me, most often because it represents an opening or a detour. View quote
Saidiya Hartman