Junho 2011
16 postagens
“Student:
I’d like to ask a question about loneliness and love. In my...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, em “The path is the goal”.
“Acordou ouvindo os disparos e pulou do estrado; na confusão, alguém abriu as...”
– Italo Calvino, no início (melhor: na abertura) do conto magistral “Como um vôo de patos”.
“Os mais velhos dentre nós têm 30 anos: no entanto, temos já esbanjado tesouros,...”
– Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, no seu “Manifesto Futurista”.
“- Desculpe-me - disse Rambaldo -, talvez seja o cansaço. Passei a noite em...”
– Italo Calvino, em “O cavaleiro inexistente”.
“A morte existe,
Mas não há quem morra.
O sofrimento existe,
Mas não há quem...”
– Visuddhimagga, capítulo 16. Tradução de Alex Castro.
“Black, you are my enemy
And I cannot get close to thee
Our life is ruled by...”
– Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Black (from the album I See a Darkness)
“Most philosophical problems are to be solved by getting rid of them, by coming...”
– Alan Watts, em “The book on the taboo against knowing who you are”.
"You hear silence speak."
fuckyeahexistentialism:
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to lose it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And...
“But when you don’t like your own life, when you know that you must change lives,...”
– Albert Camus. (via celestialteap0t)
“I always imagined that you would take me to some place where there was a huge,...”
– Dostoevsky, The Devils (via graztifarian)
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter....”
– Kurt Vonegut, em “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater”, no discurso de batismo escrito pelo personagem-título.
“Não imaginei apenas essas brincadeiras; também meditei sobre a casa. Todas as...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, em “A casa de Astérion”.
“Vou te contar uma história.
Lembra que aquela noite você disse que eu ia sonhar...”
– Daniel Galera e Rafael Coutinho, em “Cachalote”. Raíssa falando a Hermes, enquanto ele adormece.
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard (boreal)
“I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that...”
– Dylan Moran, about social networking sites like Facebook (via imshaira)
“I have been missing the having a heart. I miss the noise it used to make, the...”
– Ali Smith, em “Hotel World”. 