Wasona

“Separate the processes of creating
from improving. You can’t write and edit
or sculpt and polish
or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be
unleashed from judgment.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force. I speak, therefore I am.”
― Ted Chiang, The Great Silence

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“He recogido tan sólo flores cuando pude hacer una vasta cosecha de frutos…”
― Marquis de Sade, Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Atheist