“the only possible faithfulness is faithfulness to the best you can understand it at the time.”
-james agee, a death in the family
“the only possible faithfulness is faithfulness to the best you can understand it at the time.”
-james agee, a death in the family


“they knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
-albert camus, the plague
“i will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. we do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. how can one remember thirst?”
-from the film sans soleil, by chris marker
“reality doesn’t impress me. i only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, i escape, one way or another. no more walls.”
-anaïs nin, incest: from a journal of love
“work is love made visible. and if you can’t work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy”
-kahlil gibran

alice: how long is forever?
white rabbit: sometimes, just one second.
– lewis carroll, through the looking glass
“weakness is great, strength is insignificant. when man is born he is weak and malleable. when he dies he is strong and callused. when a tree is still growing it is flexible and tender, and when its dry and hard it dies. the inability to learn and strength are the companions of death. what has grown hard will therefore never triumph.”
-lao-tzu