It’s funny how a moment that felt so low can eventually make you smile.


“All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she as extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.”
― Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
― Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories

“We may know who we are or we may not
We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians
but until our hearts become the mould for every for every heart
we will only see our differences”
― Rumi's Little Book of Love: 150 Poems That Speak to the Heart
We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians
but until our hearts become the mould for every for every heart
we will only see our differences”
― Rumi's Little Book of Love: 150 Poems That Speak to the Heart

“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities

“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities

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