Sign in with Facebook
“Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon.”
― A Thousand Days in Venice
― A Thousand Days in Venice
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
―
―
“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”
―
―
“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”
―
―
“Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them. Lovers, then, "die" into their union with one another as a soul "dies" into its union with God. And so here, at the very heart of community life, we find not something to sell as in the public market but this momentous giving. If the community cannot protect this giving, it can protect nothing...”
― Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
― Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
Greg’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Greg’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,432 books
|
67 friends
246 books
|
383 friends
1,926 books
|
139 friends
381 books
|
46 friends
261 books
|
131 friends
864 books
|
154 friends
1,024 books
|
62 friends
1,672 books
|
55 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Greg
Lists liked by Greg
