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“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
― Slowness
― Slowness
“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
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“From the smile she gave me, anybody would have thought she’d spent the whole evening waiting for me. It was a smile that isolated the person that was addressed to, raising him to heights he would never have suspected he could conquer. A smile like a blow to the head, in which only one thing remains unequivocal. That she didn’t give a damn about you.”
― Last Summer in the City
― Last Summer in the City
“There was great sadness in the speed at which the days were getting shorter. As if they were trying to redeem something that was irredeemable. With a sense of heartache, I thought about September, when the ferocity of summer would abate.”
― Last Summer in the City
― Last Summer in the City
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