27 Quotes

“One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.”
― Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism

“О люди! все похожи вы
На прародительницу Эву:
Что вам дано, то не влечет,
Вас непрестанно змий зовет
К себе, к таинственному древу;
Запретный плод вам подавай,
А без того вам рай не рай.”
― Aleksandr Sergeevič Puškin

“No road map, no manifesto, no vision from the climate movement - and it has its fair share of radicals - ever sketched anything like the meteor storm of state interventions that hit the planet in March 2020, and yet we were always told that we were being unrealistic, unpragmatic, dreamers or alarmists. Never again should such lies be given a hearing.”
― Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

“مرّ بعد ذلك أربع أو خمس دقائق قبل أن تبدأ الستون دقيقة التي لن أنساها في حياتي.
3:10 am
اقتحموا الباب الرئيسي..”
― وائل صلاح الدين, على حافة الضوء

“I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter...”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts