“I was haunted by the possibility of settling into a place long enough for time's passing to become tangible.”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
“I had thought that I would never be able to grow tired of loving, but one night I woke to an absence of love and felt no torture: it was the absence of this tortute that truly scared me, that tortured me”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
“I was the shadow of a body that ignored me; I was also the source of light that produced that shadow. All that came back to me was a projection of myself. A*** was merely a parasite interposed between my consciousness and my unfailing tendency to diffract the real.”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
“For six months, from October to March, I succumbed to my natural tendency for reclusion, living between my bed and my desk.”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
“The machine was running on empty, racing, turning out a fortune without producing an iota of delight: no one enjoyed themselves in the least in these clubs, and I started to doubt whether anyone ever had.”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
“By distancing myself from the world, I was squandering my destiny: such was the malediction of recognizing the world’s infamy but not allowing myself to spit in its face.”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
Anne Garréta
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“Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan,” Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. “Learning is our soul’s requirement, and suffering our most persuasive teacher.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“الشخص الحذر الاقتنائي يشعر بالأمان, غير انه بالضرورة يعيش في خطر كبير, فهو يعتمد في وجوده على ما يملك من مال ومكانة وحيثية, اي على شيء خارجه, فما الذي يبقى منه إن هو فقد ما يملك ؟ ذلك أن كل ما يملكه الإنسان أو يقتنيه يمكن أن يفقده. وغني عن الذكر أن الشخص إذا فقد ممتلكاته فإنه يفقد ايضا مكانته واصدقائه, كذلك يمكن في اي لحظة, طال الزمن ام قصر, ان يفقد حياته ذاتها.
إذا كنت انا هو ما املك, ثم فقدت ما املك, فمن اكون ؟ لن يبقى سوى شاهد مهزوم متضائل مثير للشفقة .. شاهد على اسلوب حياة خاطئ. فحيث إني يمكن أن افقد ما املك فأنا بالضرورة في قلق وخوف دائمين من امكان حدوث هذا, انا في خوف من اللصوص والتقلبات الاقتصادية والثورات والامراض والموت, كذلك انا في خوف من الحب والحرية والتطور والتغير. وفي خوف من المجهول, هكذا دائما في خوف وقلق, اعاني من امراض الذعر والوسوسة المزمنة, ليس فقط من فقدان الصحة, وانما من فقدان اي شيء آخر املكه, هكذا اتحول الى كائن مشغول بالدفاع عن نفسه, موسوس وحيد تتملكني الحاجة لامتلاك مزيد من الاشياء التي انشد فيها مزيدا من الحماية.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out”
― Paul Auster, quote from Oracle Night
“Clouds spread out over the Atlantic like soiled linens on an unmade bed.”
― Kevin Powers, quote from The Yellow Birds
“I fucked up and hurt you. It won't happen again.” His fingers tensed around my head and his deep voice dropped low. “I promise you, Kitten, it won't happen again.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Reckoning
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