"What is there to confess that's worthwhile or useful? What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood."
#fernandopessoa
#thebookofdisquiet
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"What is there to confess that's worthwhile or useful? What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood."
#fernandopessoa
#thebookofdisquiet
"In this world
love has no color -
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours"
#IzumiShikibu was a 10th cen. Japanese poet. In this 1986 translation of her short poems it's eerily comforting how modern her emotional voice is.
"I get sad every time I hear someone say, 'I don't read'. It's like saying 'I don't learn', or 'I don't laugh', or 'I don't live'...." ~ Alafaire Burke
"Alien to the impertinances of the world, he only lifted his antiquarian eyes and murmured something in his dialect....his only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience."
#marquez is like a floating island: beauty, movement, impossibility. I like his short stories, specifically this one, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" - alluring and magically surreal, yet wise in the way that only he is.
#gabrielgarciamarquez #averyoldmanwithenormouswings
My greatest desire in life is to have a giant money bin like Scrooge McDuck, but instead of being filled with gold, it's filled with books which I swim through.
"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
#mobydick #hermanmelville
