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Buried souls

Stay here

To indulge forever

and throw your shards

of untamed freedom on me.

– Milena Petrovic –

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows… I’ve written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently (impossible to hide their sound), can only be of something that acquired absolute exteriority and a full-fledged soul.

– Fernando Pessoa – The Book of Disquiet

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

– Jorge Luis Borges –

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.

– John Berger –

In literature as in love,

we are astonished at

what is chosen by others.

– André Maurois –

Recette pour aller mieux. Répéter souvent ces trois phrases: le bonheur n’existe pas. L’amour est impossible. Rien n’est grave.

– Beigbeder’s Frédéric – the L’Amour dure Trois ANS (Marronnier’s Marc, # 3)

From birth to death, our life is turned on autopilot and have superhuman courage to change course.

– Frédéric Beigbeder –

Ph : Jean-Francois Jonvelle

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

– John Dryden –

Why fight the ‘natural’ order of things? Why? Because of this–one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

– David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas

Ph : Will Davidson

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

– Marcel Proust –

Ph : Will Davidson