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“maybe death isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light wrapping itself around us —

as soft as feathers —
that we are instantly weary of looking”
Mary Oliver

James Baldwin
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Maarten 't Hart
“Het lijkt of er nooit kinderen waren die zonder mij met elkaar speelden, of ik nooit zonder vrienden en vriendinnen ben geweest of dat het, als het wel zo was, in wezen niet belangrijk is—kleine golven in oppervlaktewater—maar onder die golven is een bestendige, onverbiddelijke kalmte aanwezig die soms boven alles uitstijgt als de eerste geur van herfst in de lucht is, als de eerste merels op donkere avonden in de vroege lente roepen, als bij het ontwaken de eerste, nog ongerept gebleven sneeuw gevallen blijkt te zijn. Slechts dan een kort ogenblik de illusie te begrijpen wat leven is, een vluchtig begrip waarvoor woorden ontbreken.”
Maarten 't Hart, Een vlucht regenwulpen

Virginia Woolf
“And they went further and further from her, being attached to her by a thin
thread (since they lunched with her) which would stretch and stretch, get thinner and thinner as they walked across London; as if one´s friends were attached to one´s body, after lunching with them, by a thin thread, which (as dozed there) became hazy with the sond of bells, striking the hour or ringing to service, as a single spider´s thread is blotted with rain –drops, and, burdened, sags down. So she slept. And Richard Dalloway and Hugh Whithbread hesitated at the corner of Conduit Street at the very moment that Millicent Bruton, lying on the sofa, let the thread snap, snored.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Etty Hillesum
“I shall try to help You, God, to stop my strength ebbing away, though I cannot vouch for it in advance. But one thing is becoming increasingly clear to me: that You cannot help us, that we must help You to help ourselves.”
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork

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