mai 2012
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who
is invisible enough
to see you?
– Paul Celan, from Breathturn in Selected Poems, trans. John Felstiner
avril 2012
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep...
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the...
– C. S. Lewis
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People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good...
– Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
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夢でもし会えたら素敵なことね。
ゆめでもしあえたらすてきなことね。
How wonderful it would be if we
could meet in our dreams.
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Yet how malleable our memories are, even if our brains are intact....
– Mira Bartok (The Memory Palace)
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the ungrateful world did not feel his loss, and the gap it made seemed to close...
– Mary Shelley, Shelley’s Posthumous Poems, 1824
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Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day
May break with dazzling light to...
– Weldon Kees, “Small Prayer”
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He had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have...
– Virginia Woolf
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kairosclerosis
n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.
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We’re fascinated by the words
but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
– Ram Dass
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With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force...
– Sylvia Plath
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Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of...
– Hermann Hesse