“Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”
― Immortality
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”
― Immortality
“The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
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