Ila

“The excuses became an armor that pushed away he pain, but painful feelings do not relent even when faced with brute force. They linger in the ether and visit you, whether you are ready or not to confront them. Denial masquerades as an accomplice to the expansiveness of numbness, but in fact it endeavors to break us into shards of our truth. By drawing enemy lines, denial is a refusal of our entireties. Denial is fragmentation; denial is desperate prayer.”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

“Ogni continente, ogni terra emersa (così come ogni oceano) è una specie di Arca di Noè che trasporta con sé una miriade di esseri viventi verso un altrove lontano da qualsiasi origine. Con la differenza, però, che non ci sarà mai fine al viaggio, poichè tale movimento non è la conseguenza di un'inondazione o di un evento climatico accidentale.
La condizione dell'essere al mondo è una condizione di migrazione: non un viaggio da un luogo all'altro, ma una forma di moto perpetuo - una deriva.”
― Emanuele Coccia, Metamorfosi

“I have tried to return to an "untainted" version of myself, one that was oblivious to the visceral natures of pain and loss. I obsess over an imagined place of "purity", where the ghosts of my past do not roam, and I realize that as vital as it is to release my hauntings, I cannot return to a self who is untouched by pain. I do not live in a world without pain, and I cannot pretend that pain does not continue as I continue too.”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

“Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadow are always longer. Only at noon can a man fit in his own shoes, his own best suit, for a few brief minutes.
But we're in a new age where we can think up a Big Idea and run it around in a machine. That makes the machine more than a machine, doesn't it?”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories