Devon Aoki (1997) Ph. Nick Knight
“I hesitate, I suppose it is only from a general dread of company. We all of us wish for it, in our solitude, but on the eve of a great visit, we shudder.”
— Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
Die Reise nach Lyon (Claudia von Alemann, 1981)
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
— Joshua Graham (via charmrose)
Not everything in the heart can be said, so God created sighs, tears, long sleep, cold smile and shivering hands.
-Nizar Qabbani
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you — place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
~Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (Doubleday, January 1, 1988) (via Make Believe Boutique)
It is unfair to treat anyone like a finished being. We are always becoming and unbecoming.
So long as the mind keeps silent in the motionless world of its hopes, everything is reflected and arranged in the unity of nostalgia. But with its first move this world cracks and tumbles: an infinite number of shimmering fragments is offered to the understanding. We must despair of ever reconstructing the familiar, calm surface which would give us peace of heart.
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
composed with the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict in mind, “Sarajevo” transports you to the backstreets of a war-torn city
“aranyhíd - (noun) An untranslatable Hungarian word, aranyhíd is defined as the glistening reflection of the sun on the ocean. literally: golden bridge.”
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