December 2009
15 posts
“There is no unassailable solitude. All roads lead to the same point: to the...”
– Pablo Neruda
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary...”
– Hans Hofman
A Sedentary Existence by John Ashbery
Sometimes you overhear them discussing it:
the truth—that thing I thought I was telling.
What could it have been that I said?
To be more or less like other men and women
and then to not be at all—it’s
like writing a book that is both beautiful and disgusting.
Because we can’t do it now. Yet this space
between me and what I had to say
is inspiring. There’s a...
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
– Aristotle
“If you say: “I don’t understand Christianity, I want to live without...”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks
“The misery and greatness of this world, it offers no truths, but only objects of...”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks
“This earth will grow cold,
a star among stars
and one of the smallest —...”
– Nazim Hikmet, “On Living,” a Turkish poet
“Love is not refuted because it comes to an end.”
– James Gilbert, Elegy for Bob (Jean McLean)
“If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred...”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks
“One ought to me a mystery, not only to others, but also to one’s self. I study...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Suppose we want truth. Why should we not prefer untruth? And uncertainty? Even...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.”
– John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of America
“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
– Stephen King, On Writing
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick...”
– John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of America