“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Birth is not the beginning of life - only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death - only the ending of this awareness.”
― Corpus Hermeticum
― Corpus Hermeticum
Sanja’s 2025 Year in Books
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