“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. —Jorge Luis Borges, “A New Refutation of Time”
― How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
― How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
“This is why you can’t go home again:8 because the you that arrives is not the you that left, and the home you left is not the home to which you return.”
― How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
― How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
“Her thick, unruly hair was tamed by excellent hairdressers, she learned to handle objects without breaking her nails and ideas without causing ructions. She liked to please, and that is what kills the boy within the girl.”
― Orlanda
― Orlanda
“Readers explored someone else’s mind, dreamed someone else’s dreams, walked in a different body, felt what strangers felt in their misery and desperation and passion, traveled through different lands and parallel universes without moving. They suddenly became old or young again and slipped into a different gender or a different-colored skin.”
― The Little French Village of Book Lovers
― The Little French Village of Book Lovers
“The goal of our time is not productivity, but presence.”
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