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""La bonté, la fourberie, le nom, les relations mondaines ne se laissent pas découvrir, et on les porte cachés. Ulysse lui-même ne reconnaissait pas d'abord Athéné. Mais les dieux sont immédiatement perceptibles aux dieux, le semblable aussi vite au semblable." façon intéressante de parler du gaydar" — Jul 20, 2025 08:53AM
""La bonté, la fourberie, le nom, les relations mondaines ne se laissent pas découvrir, et on les porte cachés. Ulysse lui-même ne reconnaissait pas d'abord Athéné. Mais les dieux sont immédiatement perceptibles aux dieux, le semblable aussi vite au semblable." façon intéressante de parler du gaydar" — Jul 20, 2025 08:53AM
“We are beholding a world which has gone beneath the waves.”
― Oh, to Be a Painter!
― Oh, to Be a Painter!
“It's with such profound happiness. Such a hallelujah. Hallelujah, I shout, hallelujah merging with the darkest human howl of the pain of separation but a shout of diabolic joy. Because no one can hold me back now. I can still reason - I studied mathematics, which is the madness of reason - but now I want the plasma - I want to eat straight from the placenta. I am a little scared: scared of surrendering completely because the next instant is unknown. The next instant, do I make it? or does it make itself? We make it together with our breath. And with the flair of the bullfighter in the ring.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life
“A meaning is given to familiar things that makes them strange. Not a word sounds and yet the room is full of conversations.”
― Oh, to Be a Painter!
― Oh, to Be a Painter!
“I find the Celtic belief very reasonable, that the souls of those we have lost are held captive in some inferior creature, in an animal, in a plant, in some inanimate object, effectively lost to us until the day, which for many never comes, when we happen to pass close to the tree, come into possession of the object that is their prison. Then they quiver, they call out to us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Delivered by us, they have overcome death and they return to live with us.
It is the same with our past.”
― Swann’s Way
It is the same with our past.”
― Swann’s Way
“And when the day reaches its end I hear the crickets and become entirely replete and unintelligible. Then I live the blue daybreak that comes with its bulge full of little birds—I wonder if I’m giving you an idea of what a person goes through in life? And every thing that occurs to me I note to pin it down. For I want to feel in my hands the quivering and lively nerve of the now and may that nerve resist me like a restless vein. And may it rebel, that nerve of life, and may it contort and throb. And may sapphires, amethysts and emeralds spill into the dark eroticism of abundant life: because in my darkness quakes at last the great topaz, word that has its own light.”
― Água Viva
― Água Viva
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