“just for tonight… just for tonight. be the tenderest thing. in the universe.”
― nejma
― nejma
“Marchemos, gritemos, protestemos... que cuando se escriba la historia de este tiempo que nos tocó vivir, se sepa que no estuvimos de acuerdo...”
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“To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world.”
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“Imagine standing by a window at night, on the sixth or seventeenth or forty-third floor of a building. The city reveals itself as a set of cells, a hundred thousand windows, some darkened and some flooded with green or white or golden light. Inside, strangers swim to and fro, attending to the business of their private hours. You can see them, but you can't reach them, and so this commonplace urban phenomenon, available in any city of the world on any night, conveys to even the most social a tremor of loneliness, its uneasy combination of separation and exposure.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do.”
― Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
― Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
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