Martin

“Pour un être conscient, exister consiste à changer, changer à se mûrir, se mûrir à se créer indéfiniment soi-même.”
― Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution

“There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in the deepest place of your heart? Can you avow that you would die if you were forbidden to write? Above all, in the most silent hour of your night, ask yourself this: Must I write? Dig deep into yourself for a true answer. And if it should ring its assent, if you can confidently meet this serious question with a simple, “I must,” then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Lovers' language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like. No image comes to mind that doesn't offend against the rules of good style, to say what they were and what they did to me. Undertow eyes? Why not? Undertow. That's the notion that the new expression put in my head. They held some kind of mysterious, active fluid, a force that dragged one in, like the undertow of a wave retreating from the shore on stormy days. So as not to be dragged in, I held onto anything around them, her ears, her arms, her hair spread about her shoulders; but as soon as I returned to the pupils of her eyes again, the wave emerging from them grew towards me, deep and dark, threatening to envelop me, draw me in and swallow me up.”
― Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro

“Fuiste la llama de mi razón alucinada. No había espacio donde apoyar ya mis símbolos. Te amaré tanto, decías, y aprendimos la importancia del café del desayuno en tanto yo salía a robar para ti naranjas. Devoramos el mundo, esa bestia sordomuda, para hacernos menos sordos, menos mudos, siguiendo una ley por la cual buscando crear y destruir energía la encuentras en belleza transformada. Yo no sabía qué pasa cuando un péndulo se detiene porque jamás he visto uno detenido. Llorabas y llovía. Vi cosas en tus ojos que nadie había visto, me apretabas la mano buscando exprimir aquella fruta robada a mí; a nadie; transgénico zumo de lluvia en lágrimas. La verdad es a veces tan verdad que se vuelve 100% cristalina, y así innombrable.”
― Agustín Fernández Mallo, Carne de píxel