“Dancing is like poetry written by our bodies: our outstretched arms our words of longing.”
“In strength the body only knows itself, is full of itself, its movements, its words, but in weakness is the invisible and the whisperings.”
“She is one of these women who always carries a home with her, wherever she is.”
“He laughs again and I want to eat his laughter, be nourished by it, feel it in my blood.”
“Maybe there is an invisible world working behind our own, maybe words in the silence, maybe movements in what looks completely still. When every door is closed, maybe doors are opening that can’t be seen.”
“Sometimes you know that you are destined to die, but somehow you are given a parenthesis after the punctuation mark: more years, more time that wasn’t meant for you but still was meant for you, a bridge stretching out into the stars, a confidence built of invisible threads, a miracle.”
“A workaholic who supported his wife in theory but never in action.”
“My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me.”
“Dude, it's mind control. That's got to be the best superpower ever!”
“Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.”
“When faced with the illogical, one must expand the sphere of logic to include rules of logic for that which is not logic. This is the only possibility in a world that works according to the rules of rationality.”
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