"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Saturday, August 16, 2014

Octavio Paz ~ From Sunstone



"To love is to struggle, to battle,

if two kiss, the world changes,

desires take on flesh, thoughts

take on flesh, wings sprout

on the backs of slaves.

If two kiss, if we kiss,

the world becomes real,

we cease to be ghosts,

we look at each other

and we see… we see."

~ Octavio Paz, from Sunstone




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