“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” — Milan Kundera
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“Достать чернил и плакать!
Писать о феврале навзрыд,
Пока грохочащая слякоть
Весною черною горит.”
—
Get ink, shed tears.
Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,
While torrential slush that roars
Burns in the blackness of the spring.
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
~Joanna Baillie
“I am what I may justifiably be taken by others to be in the course of living out a story that runs front my birth to my death; and I am the subject of a history that is my own and no one else’s, that has its own peculiar meaning.” — Alasdair MacIntyre
listening to "Regina Spektor - No Surprises (Radiohead Cover)" -
I dreamt of this cover. Thank you Regina, for making this a reality.
“In Argentina, we are never more alive than when we are contemplating death.” — Tomás Eloy Martínez (via narratrix)
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.