“To follow with Bruno’s notion that the structure of human thought corresponds to the structure of nature. And therefore to conclude that everything, in some sense, is connected to everything else”
“All the unhappiness of man stems from one thing only: that he’s incapable of staying quietly in his room”, Pascal
“Only one thing is certain: he cannot be anywhere until he is here. And if he does not manage to find this place, it would be absurd for him to think of looking for another”
“Memory: The place in which a thing happens for the second time”
“It may be that a better way
to conquer time and the world
is to pass, and not to leave a trace---
To pass and not to leave a shadow.
on the walls...”
“I didn’t want this, not
this (but listen quietly,
to want is what bodies do
and now we are ghosts only)
Marina Tsvetayeva
“...So what we are really doing when we walk through the city is thinking, and thinking in such way that our toughts compose a journey, and this journey is no more or less than the steps we have take, so that, in the end, we might safely say that we have been on a journey, and even if we do not leave our room, it has been a journey, and we might say safely that we have been somewhere, even if we don’t know where it is.”

“ If a man is to be truly present among his surroundings, he must be thinking not of himself in order to be there. And from that forgetfulness arises the power of memory. It is a way of livingf one’s life so that nothing is ever lost.”

“We made ourselves into what we are now then, and we remain what we were. In spite of the years. We do not change for urselves. Time make us grow old, but we do not change.”

Paul Auster The invention of Solitude