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“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“Θά ῾ρθει μιὰ μέρα ποὺ δὲ θά ῾χουμε πιὰ τί νὰ ποῦμε
Θὰ καθόμαστε ἀπέναντι καὶ θὰ κοιταζόμαστε στὰ μάτια
Ἡ σιωπή μου θὰ λέει: Πόσο εἶσαι ὄμορφη, μὰ δὲ
βρίσκω ἄλλο τρόπο νὰ στὸ πῶ
Θὰ ταξιδέψουμε κάπου, ἔτσι ἀπὸ ἀνία ἢ γιὰ νὰ
ποῦμε πὼς κι ἐμεῖς ταξιδέψαμε.
Ὁ κόσμος ψάχνει σ᾿ ὅλη του τὴ ζωὴ νὰ βρεῖ τουλάχιστο
τὸν ἔρωτα, μὰ δὲν βρίσκει τίποτα.
Σκέφτομαι συχνὰ πὼς ἡ ζωή μας εἶναι τόσο μικρὴ
ποὺ δὲν ἀξίζει κἂν νὰ τὴν ἀρχίσει κανείς.
Ἀπ᾿ τὴν Ἀθήνα θὰ πάω στὸ Μοντεβίδεο ἴσως καὶ
στὴ Σαγκάη, εἶναι κάτι κι αὐτὸ δὲ μπορεῖς
νὰ τὸ ἀμφισβητήσεις.
Καπνίσαμε -θυμήσου- ἀτέλειωτα τσιγάρα
συζητώντας ἕνα βράδυ
-ξεχνῶ πάνω σὲ τί- κι εἶναι κρῖμα γιατὶ ἦταν τόσο
μα τόσο ἐνδιαφέρον.
Μιὰ μέρα, ἂς ἤτανε, νὰ φύγω μακριά σου ἀλλὰ κι
ἐκεῖ θά ῾ρθεις καὶ θὰ μὲ ζητήσεις
Δὲ μπορεῖ, Θέ μου, νὰ φύγει κανεὶς μοναχός του.”
―
Θὰ καθόμαστε ἀπέναντι καὶ θὰ κοιταζόμαστε στὰ μάτια
Ἡ σιωπή μου θὰ λέει: Πόσο εἶσαι ὄμορφη, μὰ δὲ
βρίσκω ἄλλο τρόπο νὰ στὸ πῶ
Θὰ ταξιδέψουμε κάπου, ἔτσι ἀπὸ ἀνία ἢ γιὰ νὰ
ποῦμε πὼς κι ἐμεῖς ταξιδέψαμε.
Ὁ κόσμος ψάχνει σ᾿ ὅλη του τὴ ζωὴ νὰ βρεῖ τουλάχιστο
τὸν ἔρωτα, μὰ δὲν βρίσκει τίποτα.
Σκέφτομαι συχνὰ πὼς ἡ ζωή μας εἶναι τόσο μικρὴ
ποὺ δὲν ἀξίζει κἂν νὰ τὴν ἀρχίσει κανείς.
Ἀπ᾿ τὴν Ἀθήνα θὰ πάω στὸ Μοντεβίδεο ἴσως καὶ
στὴ Σαγκάη, εἶναι κάτι κι αὐτὸ δὲ μπορεῖς
νὰ τὸ ἀμφισβητήσεις.
Καπνίσαμε -θυμήσου- ἀτέλειωτα τσιγάρα
συζητώντας ἕνα βράδυ
-ξεχνῶ πάνω σὲ τί- κι εἶναι κρῖμα γιατὶ ἦταν τόσο
μα τόσο ἐνδιαφέρον.
Μιὰ μέρα, ἂς ἤτανε, νὰ φύγω μακριά σου ἀλλὰ κι
ἐκεῖ θά ῾ρθεις καὶ θὰ μὲ ζητήσεις
Δὲ μπορεῖ, Θέ μου, νὰ φύγει κανεὶς μοναχός του.”
―
“The hardest kind of resistance, is when you’re resisting yourself. When your heart want something, and your brain prevents it. When you want to cry, but you smile instead to protect your pride. When you feel like blowing up, but prefer to explode in your deepest depths, so no one around you can feel it.”
―
―
“To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.”
― The Gate of Angels
― The Gate of Angels
“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― The Braindead Megaphone
― The Braindead Megaphone
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