“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possesses by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul.' (Landscapes of the Heart by Motojiro Kajii)”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place.
Or, at least not yet again.
As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Or, at least not yet again.
As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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