The Overwhelming Experience Of Tragedy Is A Disorientation Expressed In One Bewildered And Frequently

The overwhelming experience of tragedy is a disorientation expressed in one bewildered and frequently repeated question: What shall I do?

- Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

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4 years ago

in that largeness of heart, that capacity for feeling and desire and passion, there's some kind of holiness.

Niall Williams, History of the Rain


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4 years ago

I say we but it's just an illusion that our hearts beat in unison

Wisława Szymborska, We tr. Regina Grol


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5 years ago

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me. The world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign & re-create myself…” 


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2 years ago

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

Willa Cather, Not Under Forty


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4 years ago
Fragmentary Face Of King Khafre

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

ca. 2520-2494 BCE | Old Kingdom, Egypt | Egyptian alabaster


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5 years ago

A great halo And a tightening in the throat

Dorota Chróścielewska, tr. Regina Grol


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2 years ago

'Come close to me, come closer. I promise it will be beautiful.'

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June


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2 years ago

I am the fire, says the fire. My body is a graveyard,

says the landscape. You’re welcome, says the landscape.

- Richard Siken, Landscape with Several Small Fires


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4 years ago

Violence was all. The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando


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4 years ago

He cried as if crying was a language he alone knew and in it there was something urgent he needed to say.

Niall Williams, History of the Rain


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