A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
Michel de CerteauTo walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.
Michel de CerteauThe only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
Michel de CerteauEveryday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
Michel de CerteauPlaces are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. 'I feel good here': the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice.
Michel de CerteauFirst, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.
Michel de Certeau