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“Lord let me suffer much and then die Let me walk through silence and leave nothing behind not even fear Make the world continue let the ocean kiss the sand just as before Let the grass stay green so that the frogs can hide in it so that someone can bury his face in it and sob out his love Make the day rise brightly as if there were no more pain And let my poem stand clear as a windowpane bumped by a bumblebee’s head tr. by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak”
― Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
― Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
“We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it. Everything is vision, becoming. We become universes.”
― What Is Philosophy?
― What Is Philosophy?
“My God my bright abyss
into which all my longing will not go
once more I come to the edge of all I know
and believing nothing believe in this.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
into which all my longing will not go
once more I come to the edge of all I know
and believing nothing believe in this.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“The fear of death distresses a man with a guilty conscience, but the man with a good witness within himself longs for death as for life.’ Count no man truly wise who, because of this temporal life, enslaves his mind to timidity and fear.”
― Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian
― Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian
“It is already hard enough to understand what someone is saying. Discussion is just an exercise in narcissism where everyone takes turns showing off. Very quickly, you no longer have any idea what is being discussed.”
― Two Regimes of Madness: Texts And Interviews 1975 1995
― Two Regimes of Madness: Texts And Interviews 1975 1995
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