The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him … Continue reading Quote for Today: William Faulkner
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Quote for Today:Fernando Pessoa
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion. ― … Continue reading Quote for Today:Fernando Pessoa
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that … Continue reading Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Quote for Today: Kayko Tamaki
It is a shame to be unaware of the shifts and changes that happen every day, every moment, right before your eyes. The little crinkles around her eyes that get ever-so-slightly deeper and wiser. The silver linings of her hair. The wonders of time and how they show their presence in such ways. You … Continue reading Quote for Today: Kayko Tamaki
Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
The structure of the house was hierarchical, with my grandfather at the top, but its secret life - the life of pie crusts, clean sheets, the box of rags in the linen closet, the loaves in the oven - was female. The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed … Continue reading Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
Quote for Today: Tim O’Brien
The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water and sky and forest, and after a time it occurred to her that she’d lived a life almost entirely indoors. Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls. Her whole life had … Continue reading Quote for Today: Tim O’Brien
