Lucas Mattos’s Reviews > The Book of Disquiet > Status Update

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn’t a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars (185, #210).

For transit…

“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude toward life, which is everything, or his own being, which is almost everything, he flees, devoting himself to modifying others and the outside world. Every revolutionary and reformer is a fugitive. To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.”