Hana

“Memory Is Not Enough

Memory is not enough…
I do not recollect. What I am
is alive in me because of you. I do not reinvent you
at sadly cooled-off places you have left behind.
Even your absence is filled
with your warmth and is more real
than your not-existing. Longing often meanders
into vagueness. Why should I throw myself away
when something in you may be
touching me, very lightly, like moonlight
on a window seat.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“I became lucid, with an impersonal lucidity. I sensed I was at the heart of a mysterious peace, where everything miraculously took shape without my being surprised. I saw clearly that I was rising, and that I was free. I had an ease of soul that allowed me to think all and to believe all. I could do all, without risk. Without understanding it, I saw that the lofty thought that lived in this house was now entering me, had become my substance. And I no longer sought its meaning, because it was my own self. From now on, I whispered, in this state of the soul’s ethereal life, it is of my self that I must ask the secret of this place. And I stretched out on the bed, where the true sleep of my fathers enveloped”
― Henri Bosco, Malicroix

“Godinama je njegovo praznovjerje da se stvarnost i istinske predodžbe mogu naći u razgovoru s pripadnicima radničke klase. Iako je sada jasno vidio da su njihove formule razmišljanja i govora jednako krute i šablonske, pa stoga i jednako daleko od bilo kakvog izraza istinitosti kao i formule svake druge klase, često bi i dalje znao uhvatiti sebe kako čeka, iracionalno vjerujući da bi im iz usta mogli izaći biseri mudrosti.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“Duša je najumorniji dio tijela.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky