Monica Raycheva
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W.G. Sebald
“Time, said Austerlitz in the observation room in Greenwich, was by far the most artificial of all our inventions, and in being bound to the planet turning on its own axis was no less arbitrary than would be, say, a calculation based on the growth of trees or the duration required for a piece of limestone to disintegrate, quite apart from the fact that the solar day which we take as our guideline does not provide any precise measurement, so that in order to reckon time we have to devise an imaginary, average sun which has an invariable speed of movement and does not incline towards the equator in its orbit.”
W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
tags: time

Siegfried Kracauer
“We must rid ourselves of the delusion that it is the major events which have the most decisive influence on us. We are much more deeply and continuously influenced by the tiny catastrophes that make up daily life.”
Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
tags: life

Italo Calvino
“M'accorgo che correndo verso Y ciò che più desidero non è trovare Y al termine della mia corsa: voglio che sia Y a correre verso di me, è questa la risposta di cui ho bisogno, cioè ho bisogno che lei sappia che io sto correndo verso di lei ma nello stesso tempo ho bisogno di sapere che lei sta correndo verso di me.”
Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

Clarice Lispector
“É incômodo ser dois: eu para mim e eu para os outros.”
Clarice Lispector, Um Sopro de Vida

Henry Miller
“...what we have brought to perfection, in our zeal to escape the true reality, is a complete arsenal of destruction; when we have rid ourselves of the suicidal mania for a beyond we shall begin the life of here and now which is reality and which is sufficient unto itself. We shall have no need for art or religion because we shall be in ourselves a work of art...this is the way in which man will overcome his broken state.”
Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

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