Will

“Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.”
― Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection

“Figure, movement. Everything happens, says Pascal, from figure and movement. To say in this case that everything happens from movement, for every figure is no more than the lingering trace of a movement that has already ceased. Thus the letters that I am forming now, for example, are only the pen's lingering trace of the movement of my hand.”
― Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection

“I remember what it was...to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting-everything- was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“How impossible, though, to turn one's back on all the horrors in the world; there had to be another way to live.”
― Edan Lepucki, California