“Madness is the emergency exit.”
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“Thinking is good. But living is better”
Li-Young Lee making me weep and smile
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I was watching some panelists at a finance conference, all feeling on the top of the world. And couldn’t help thinking, wait a few centuries, and you’ll be forgotten, and we will remember the lowly passerby who saved a half-dead stranger on the road from Jericho to Jerusalem.
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The end of the avenue No painter Will be able to paint
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Philip Larkin
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Everyone is slowly descending the stairs Of their past lives
don’t mind me, i’m just a girl crying at the past lives stairs
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Italo Calvino (in “Multiplicity”): “Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function. (1/2)
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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“Einen Menschen kennt einzig nur der, welcher ohne Hoffnung ihn liebt.” — Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße
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Wendy Cope
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Wings of Desire (1987) Director: Wim Wenders
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each time they announce the winner of the nobel prize in literature, i return to this poem.
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― haruki murakami
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“I become the cigarette and you the match Or I the match and you the cigarette Blazing with kisses that smoulder towards heaven”
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Borges thought about Death and Time a lot.
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Sospecho, sin embargo, que no era muy capaz de pensar. Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer. #FunesElMemorioso
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And what if it doesn’t
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