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Água Viva
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This is life seen by life. I may not have meaning but it is the same lack of meaning that the pulsing vein has.
“For each one of us and at some lost moment of life—is a mission announced that we must accomplish? I however refuse any mission. I won’t accomplish anything: I just live.
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Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary. I am piecemeal. My story is living. And I have no fear of failure. Let failure annihilate me, I want the glory of falling. My crippled angel who contorts all elusive, my angel who fell from the heavens to the hell where he lives savoring evil.”
― Água Viva
[...]
Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary. I am piecemeal. My story is living. And I have no fear of failure. Let failure annihilate me, I want the glory of falling. My crippled angel who contorts all elusive, my angel who fell from the heavens to the hell where he lives savoring evil.”
― Água Viva
“I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive.”
― Água Viva
― Água Viva
“How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong?
I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone”
― The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone”
― The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
“The night of today looks at me with torpor, verdigris and lime. I want inside this night that is longer than life, I want, inside this night, life raw and bloody and full of saliva.”
― Água Viva
― Água Viva
“The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life
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