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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
“Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.”
― The Box Man
― The Box Man
“Not all pain is significant. (on Dave Terry)”
― Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.”
― Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations
― Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations
“This is time for us. Memory. A nostalgia. The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain.
For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”
― L'ordine del tempo
For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”
― L'ordine del tempo
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