January 2010
at the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.. that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. -albert camus (baobab)
Maurice Ravel, String quartet in F maj. - II....
Ludwig van Beethoven, String trio in C# minor, Op...
We talk of love as being either carnal or spiritual and have set a battle going between the sacred and the profane. We have divided what love is from what love should be, so we never know what love is. Love, surely, is a total feeling that is not sentimental and in which there is no sense of separation. It is complete purity of feeling without the separative, fragmenting quality of the intellect....
For one human being to love another is perhaps the most difficult task of all, the epitome, the ultimate test. It is that striving for which all other striving is merely preparation. For that reason young people – who are beginners in everything – cannot yet love; they do not know how to love. They must learn it. With their whole being, with all strengths enveloping their lonely, disquieted heart,...
reiko kudo, gardener (fire inside my hat, 1997)
il trattamento del colera esige dal medico prima di tutto molta disponibilità di tempo; bisogna cioè dedicare a ogni ammalato da cinque a dieci ore, se non di più.
- a. cechov, lettera a aleksej s. suvorin, 16 agosto 1886
Best of all is night in a foreign country. Come sunset you leave some place because it’s turned out to be hopelessly boring, and you set out, let’s say, due south. Darkness is descending onto the plains, covering up their melancholy, and by ten in the evening you’re driving through pure black space. You can imagine all sorts of things to yourself; you can guess at the outline of the unseen...
“you people with hearts,” he said, “have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.” - l. frank baum, the wizard of oz (sb)
peter gabriel, my body is a cage (arcade fire...
peter gabriel, heroes (d.b. cover, scratch my...
kukkiva poliisi, rapatasku (ilola, 2005)...
chinawoman, back in the ghetto of longing (party...
john cale, the jeweller (slow dazzle, 1975)...
Grandezza significa: imprimere una direzione. – Nessun fiume è grande e ricco di per sé, ma è il fatto di ricevere e convogliare in sé tanti affluenti a renderlo tale. Ciò vale anche per ogni grandezza dello spirito. Importa solo questo: che uno imprima la direzione che poi tanti affluenti dovranno seguire, e non che uno possieda sin dall’inizio capacità grandi o piccole. -Friedrich Nietzsche...
Aveva un desiderio terribile di dirgli, come la più banale delle donne: non lasciarmi, tienimi con te, dòmami, soggiògami, sii forte! Ma erano parole che non poteva né sapeva pronunciare. Quando l’ebbe sciolto dall’abbraccio, disse soltanto: -Come sono felice di essere con te-. Con il suo carattere riservato, era il massimo che potesse dire. -Milan Kundera, L’insostenibile leggerezza dell’essere...
L’inferno è chiuso, tutti i demoni sono qui sulla terra.
- Philip Marlowe
“We don’t need to destroy the past. It is gone.”
– John Cage
