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I’ve lived so little that I tend to imagine I’m not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory
... See moreMichel Houellebecq, To Litt (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Paul Hammond (Translator) • Whatever (Serpent's Tail Classics)
La voix des gens ne change jamais, pas davantage que l'expression de leur regard. Au milieu de l'effondrement physique généralisé à quoi se résume la vieillesse, la voix et le regard apportent le témoignage douloureusement irrécusable de la persistance du caractère, des aspirations, des désirs, de tout ce qui constitue une personnalité humaine.
Michel Houellebecq • La carte et le territoire (French Edition)
"The producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia.
Habit is necessary; but it is the habit ... See more
L’adulte sait que les choses, comme les êtres, qui partent finissent par revenir, mais c’est différent pour l’enfant à qui tout semble dire adieu constamment. Cet âge de la vie où dix secondes semblent une éternité quand on ne sait pas qu’il nous reste quatre-vingts ans à vivre.
Dany Laferrière de l'Académie française • L'art presque perdu de ne rien faire: Collection bleue (essai français) (French Edition)
One by Mary Oliver The mosquito is so small it takes almost nothing to ruin it. Each leaf, the same. And the black ant, hurrying. So many lives, so many fortunes! Every morning, I walk softly and with forward glances down to the ponds and through the pinewoods. Mushrooms, even, have but a brief hour before the slug creeps to the feast, before the p
... See moreFrom time to time I meet with a youth in whom I can wish for no alteration or improvement, only I am sorry to see how often his nature makes him quite ready to swim with the stream of the time; and it is on this that I would always insist, that man in his fragile boat has the rudder placed in his hand, just that he may not be at the mercy of the wa
... See moreJohann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Sabio es quien monotoniza la existencia, puesto que entonces cada pequeño incidente tiene un privilegio de maravilla.
