Passage by ParkeHarrison
Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen.
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
Nakon određene točke više nema povratka. Tu točku potrebno je dostići.
Franz Kafka
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
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Man never Is, but always To be blest:
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The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home,
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Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
Nada se construye sobre piedra; todo se construye sobre arena, pero debemos construir como si la arena fuese piedra.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Ništa nije izgrađeno na kamenu; sve je građeno na pijesku, ali moramo graditi kao da pijesak bijaše kamen.
Jorge Luis Borges
I want to be where
your bare foot walks,
because maybe before you step,
you’ll look at the ground.
I want that blessing.
— Rumi
As you are writing
The ink grows less
The sea increases
George Seferis
(Hugues de Wurstemberger, Dahla 1990)
My inability to absorb, my genius for forgetting, are more than they reckoned with. Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Marry Shelley
Dan: You think love is simple. You think the heart is like a diagram.
Larry: Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself! You writer! You liar!
Closer, Patrick Marber
Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoa
At the center of your being your know who you are and you know what you want.
— Lao Tzu
We are what our deep, driving desire is. As our deep, driving desire is, so is our will. As our will is, so is our deed. As our deed is, so is our destiny.
—The Upanishads, Brihadaranyaka IV.4.5
