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What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there’s no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight.
“Io ho sette ferite" mi aveva detto la signorina Moraza, "come le sette vite dei gatti". Vivere è esplorare la ferita. Non esiste un altro modo di vivere. Non provate a convincermi che esiste. La ferita è bella. La cicatrice necessaria. Io sono una ferita aperta. Ovale è la casa e anche la crepa.”
― La mischia
― La mischia
“The body in the mirror forces me to turn and face it. And I look at my body, which is under sentence of death. It is lean, hard and cold, the incarnation of a mystery. And I do not know what moves in this body, what this body is searching. It is trapped in my mirror as it is trapped in time and it hurries toward revelation.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became I man, I put away childish things.
I long to make this prophecy come true. I long to crack that mirror and be free. I look at my sex, my troubling sex, and wonder how it can be redeemed, how can I save it from the knife. The journey to the grave is already begun, the journey to corruption is, always, already, half over. Yet, the key to my salvation, which cannot save my body, is hidden in my flesh.”
― Giovanni’s Room
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became I man, I put away childish things.
I long to make this prophecy come true. I long to crack that mirror and be free. I look at my sex, my troubling sex, and wonder how it can be redeemed, how can I save it from the knife. The journey to the grave is already begun, the journey to corruption is, always, already, half over. Yet, the key to my salvation, which cannot save my body, is hidden in my flesh.”
― Giovanni’s Room
“Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.
It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Hay algo, una atracción velada de tristeza, que en vez de menguar parece aumentar con los años. Quizá tenga que ver con el hecho de que las habitaciones de mi memoria se vacíen cada vez más aprisa. Alguien va abriendo la puertas una a una, pasando de una habitación a otra con la esperanza - mezclada con temor - de encontrarse en alguna de ellas consigo mismo, allí donde todavía sigue entero.
No es esta fascinación por el pasado, al fin y al cabo, un intento de alcanzar ese lugar intacto, por remoto que esté, en el que las cosas permanecen enteras, en el que huele a césped, en el que observas a bocajarro la rosa y su laberinto. Digo lugar, pero es más bien un tiempo, un lugar en el tiempo. Un consejo de mi parte: nunca, jamás, tras una larga ausencia, visites el lugar que dejaste de niño. Ha sido reemplazado, vaciado de tiempo, abandonado, convertido en fantasmagoría.
No
queda
nada
allí”
― Time Shelter
No es esta fascinación por el pasado, al fin y al cabo, un intento de alcanzar ese lugar intacto, por remoto que esté, en el que las cosas permanecen enteras, en el que huele a césped, en el que observas a bocajarro la rosa y su laberinto. Digo lugar, pero es más bien un tiempo, un lugar en el tiempo. Un consejo de mi parte: nunca, jamás, tras una larga ausencia, visites el lugar que dejaste de niño. Ha sido reemplazado, vaciado de tiempo, abandonado, convertido en fantasmagoría.
No
queda
nada
allí”
― Time Shelter
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