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“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'
Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
“We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when we ourselves shall be no more. [C] ‘Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius’ [Wretched is a mind anxious about the future].”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Como el viajero que ha sorteado el abismo, podía asomarse a él y medir la profundidad en la que no había caído. Estaba enamorado, pero aún no estaba perdido.”
― El contenido del silencio
― El contenido del silencio
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