“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Under everything is happiness so deep and rich it’s like dark wet earth. I don’t know what it means. I don’t know why it’s there. But I could reach out and grab a fistful of it.”
― The Binding
― The Binding
“We have the power to decide on our own who we will be. Therefore, we will make mistakes.
However-
We have the power to decide on our own who we will be. There, we can also recover from mistakes.”
― How Do You Live?
However-
We have the power to decide on our own who we will be. There, we can also recover from mistakes.”
― How Do You Live?
“The thing about fucking off to the woods is that unless you are a very particular, very rare sort of person, it does not take long to understand why people left said woods in the first place.”
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
“People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’ Laurence Arne-Sayles, interview in The Secret Garden, May 1976”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
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