“Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveris amaverit… Everything was love. Everything will be love. Everything has been love. Everythi...
2025-04-10 10:37:41 +0000 UTC View Post
“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.
Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?
Probably not. Why would you? Well, listen.
All mortals owe a debt to death.
2025-04-10 10:37:22 +0000 UTC
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“O Thebes! garland yourself
in all the green there is —
ivy green,
olive green,
fennel green,
growing green,
yearning green,
wet sap green,
new grape green,
green of ...
"
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
The sum was $87,472,033.61 on June...
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. The emotion derives from...
2025-04-08 06:41:40 +0000 UTC View Post
“Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see?
Transparent images moving through light, “an infinite storm of beauty.”
The beginning is swaddled in mists, ...
“One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a statement is that? For a long time I considered it mere words. How could that be possible? When in...
2025-04-07 08:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post
“You're innocent, Casaubon. You ran away instead of throwing stones, you got your degree, you didn't shoot anybody. Yet a few years ago I felt you, too, were blackmailing me. Nothing personal, ju...
2025-04-06 09:47:16 +0000 UTC View Post
“All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female goldfinch suddenly hove into view. She lighted weightlessly on the head of a bankside purple ...
2025-04-06 09:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“Certain acts dazzle us and light up blurred surfaces, if our eyes are sharp enough to see them in a flash, for the beauty of a living thing can be grasped only fleetingly. To pursue it during it...
2025-04-05 08:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post
“I live in tranquility and trembling…there is not a guarantee in the world. Oh, your needs are guaranteed, your needs are absolutely guaranteed by the most stringent of warranties, in the plain...
2025-04-05 08:47:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long sti...
2025-04-04 07:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post
“Our spread over the earth was fuelled by reducing the higher species of vegetation to charcoal, by incessantly burning whatever would burn. From the first smouldering taper to the elegant lanter...
2025-04-04 07:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
“Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won’t see it. It is, as Ruskin says, “not merely unnoticed, but in...
2025-04-03 09:43:42 +0000 UTC View Post
“We don't know what's going on here. If these tremendous events are random combinations of matter run amok, the yield of millions of monkeys at millions of typewriters, then what is it in us, ham...
2025-04-03 09:43:23 +0000 UTC View Post
“Why would anyone who is deeply satisfied with reality, with real life as it is lived, dedicate himself to something as insubstantial and fanciful as the creation of fictional realities? Naturall...
2025-04-02 11:34:37 +0000 UTC View Post
“You invented me. There is no such earthly being,
Such an earthly being there could never be.
A doctor cannot cure, a poet cannot comfort
A shadowy apparition haunts you night and day....
“The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is the object of vision, and what I see before me at any given second is a full field of color pa...
2025-04-01 07:39:17 +0000 UTC View Post
“Dr. Syngmann: I am talking about the only quality that was worth creating the world for, the only power that is worth controlling.
Pastor Jón: Úa?
Dr. Syngmann in a tired, gravel...
“His mind was freshly inclined to sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in the world one must try to remember that all wer...
2025-03-31 09:17:10 +0000 UTC View Post
“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness. Only I did not think it would be so soon. Or that he would precede us. Two passing temporarinesses de...
2025-03-31 09:16:34 +0000 UTC View Post
“August's list of good things:
Sun.
Stars.
Pails.
Birth.
The harvest.
Numbers.
Sounds.
Window.
Straw.
Frint.
Beams.
Futility.
My mother.
My father.
La...
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of ...
2025-03-30 09:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post
“There was nothing left for me to do, but go.
Though the things of the world were strong with me still.
Such as, for example: a gaggle of children trudging through a side-blown December flu...
“There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself al...
2025-03-28 08:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Nine
THERE WERE a baker’s dozen of perfumers in Paris in those days. Six of them resided on the right bank, six on the left, and one exactly in the middle, that is, on the ...
2025-03-27 09:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Eight
ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1753, the anniversary of the king’s coronation, the city of Paris set off fireworks at the Pont-Royal. The display was not as spectacular as the firew...
2025-03-27 09:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post
We are protected from so much pain. For example: graves.
The earth’s roots and brown-black blood are busy
covering the soft, violated bodies of our loves.
Death is a secret, and the r...
There is a room. A big room, with a steeply pitched roof, like an attic. It is blue. And in the book on the floor, she reads: “Doors and windows are cut out in the walls of the house. And because...
2025-03-26 09:41:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.
III
...