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Reflecting is listening stronger

16 Friday Oct 2020

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Ando Fuchs, August Strindberg

This is finally loneliness: wrapping yourself in the silk of your soul, getting chrysalis and waiting for metamorphosis, which you cannot miss. Meanwhile you live of your own experiences and telepathically you live other people’s life […].Finally you only own yourself. Other people’s thoughts don’t control mine anymore; opinions, other people’s tantrums don’t upset me anymore. Now the soul starts to mature in regained freedom and I feel an immense inner peace, a serene pleasure, a sense of certainty and responsibility. If I reflect on the social life that should be some kind of gym, I can’t now but judge it other than a school of vices. If you carry a sense of beauty, being forced to see ugliness is a real torture, which deceitfully drives you to consider yourself a martyr. Closing your eyes to injustice just because of it teaches you little by little to become a hypocrite. Getting used to constantly suppressing your opinions and always because of it, makes you vile. August Strindberg, ′′ Alone ′′

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From the bottom

15 Thursday Oct 2020

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Elvio Fachinelli

“I became quieter and more attentive; more receptive maybe. I no longer believe, if I have ever believed it, in assertions, affirmative or peremptory style, in setting and program speeches. What’s important comes from bottom, from silence, from a kind of passivity. Which doesn’t mean: slowly; no, actually sometimes it means: abruptly, suddenly, but always from the bottom, like a different voice and together always clear, clear (…) I’ve learned to live the discontinuous, not demanding security passages where there is no one or at least where I don’t know anyone. :Endure the anguish. Endure loneliness. (…) I am deviated by a more urgent, cooler interest. Even if afterwards, I can see that deep down I have moved on in the groove of a line present from long time ago.” Elvio Fachinelli

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Great fire

14 Wednesday Oct 2020

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CHanging the earth, Emmet Gowin, Vincent van Gogh

“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way. So what to do, revive this inner fire, have salt in oneself, wait patiently yet with how much impatience -, wait for the moment when, I tell myself, someone will come to sit in front of this fire, and maybe it will stop .” Vincent Van Gogh

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Hidden bosom

09 Friday Oct 2020

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What you can’t say out loud because it’s too true, you don’t use to tell the great truths by speaking. The truth of what happens in the hidden bosom of time is the silence of lives, and that cannot be said. There are things you can’t say , and it’s unquestionable. But it’s exactly what you can’t say that you should sing.

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Observing

08 Thursday Oct 2020

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Nicolás Gómez Dávila, pumpkin

“Only he lives his life who observes it, thinks it, and says it; the rest let life live them”. Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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Astral

07 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Giorgio Caproni, Jorge Luis Borges

2020-10-07 at 4:12 am

What do you want me to ask.
Leave me in my dark. Just this one.
Let me see.
Giorgio Caproni, Instance of the same

If sleep is truce, as it is sometimes said, a pure time for the mind to rest and heal, why, when they suddenly wake you, do you feel that they have stolen everything you had? Why is it so sad to be awake at dawn? It strips us of a gift so strange, so deep, it can be remembered only in half-sleep, moments of drowsiness that gild and adorn. The waking mind with dreams, which may well be but broken images of the night’s treasure, a timeless world that has no name or measure and breaks up in the mirrors of the day. Who will you be tonight, in the dark thrall of sleep, when you have slipped across its wall? Jorge Luis Borges

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Autumn Sonata

29 Tuesday Sep 2020

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Else Lasker-Schüler

Golden doves Rest on your cheeks.
But your heart is a whirling wind And your blood like my blood rustles
Sweetly By the raspberry bushes.
My thoughts run rings around you, Just ask the night –
No-one can play As I do with your hands,
Build castles as I do With golden fingers,
Fortresses with high towers: Then we play at robbers on the beach.
Splendour fills my being When you arrive.
And when you press me close to you I can see your heart starring.
Your entrails Are scintillating lizards.
You are of a gold, a gold so deep That all lips hold their breath.

Else Lasker-Schüler

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Kippur 5781-א

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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Kippur 5781

A smell from which all memory constructs itself.

כְּתַפּ֨וּחַ֙ בַּֽעֲצֵ֣י הַיַּ֔עַר כֵּ֥ן דּוֹדִ֖י בֵּ֣ין הַבָּנִ֑ים בְּצִלּוֹ֙ חִמַּ֣דְתִּי וְיָשַׁ֔בְתִּי וּפִרְי֖וֹ מָת֥וֹק לְחִכִּֽי

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Marriage of things

27 Sunday Sep 2020

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Walter Benjamin

Free me from the time from which you have passed and absolve me from within your presence. Like red roses in the hours of twilight draw back from the faded marriage of things.

Walter Benjamin

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Become better

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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Elias Canetti

I want to become tolerant, without neglecting anything: I wish I didn’t persecute anyone, even if everyone persecutes me; become better, without realizing it, become sadder, but willingly live; become more peaceful, be happy in others; not belonging to anyone, grow in everyone ; loving the best, console the worst: hating no more, not even myself.

Elias Canetti, The Clipboard, 1942-1972 (from The Man Province)

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