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“If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream--a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows--is essentially poetry.”
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“First you might cry. Because shame and loneliness are almost one. Shame at existing in the first place. Shame at being visible, taking up space, breathing some of the sky, sleeping in a whole bed, asking for a share. Loneliness feels so much like shame, it always seems to need a little more time on its own.”
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“To exist is to drink oneself without thirst.”
― Les Années
― Les Années
“Svaki put kada sanjamo konkretnu i opasnu misao, dobro znamo da ona ne zavisi ni od izričite odluke, ni od izričite metode, već od nasilja na koje nailazimo, koje odbijamo, koje nas, uprkos našoj volji, vodi do Suština. Jer Suštine žive u mračnim zonama, ne u umerenim krajevima jasnog i razgovetnog.”
― Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
― Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
“I think I want, but what is it that I want?
Do I want something? I don’t know.
It’s like in the summer when lifting the eyes
To heaven, hoping to see a star
Fall, or one that might fall, uncertain
Of my vows I entrust myself lazily to the ambiguous
Secret part of me, separate from me,
By me forgotten in some back room
Which may still hold within it, if it’s there,
Its original shape, the mold of pleasure,
And with muted voice I say: may what I want come about
May the wish come true. Even though I don’t know
Don’t know what that is, the star will know,
Because it’s far away.”
― My Poems Won't Change the World: Selected Poems
Do I want something? I don’t know.
It’s like in the summer when lifting the eyes
To heaven, hoping to see a star
Fall, or one that might fall, uncertain
Of my vows I entrust myself lazily to the ambiguous
Secret part of me, separate from me,
By me forgotten in some back room
Which may still hold within it, if it’s there,
Its original shape, the mold of pleasure,
And with muted voice I say: may what I want come about
May the wish come true. Even though I don’t know
Don’t know what that is, the star will know,
Because it’s far away.”
― My Poems Won't Change the World: Selected Poems
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