December 2009
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Paul Eluard "Sans rancune"
Larmes des yeux, le malheur des malheureux
Malheurs sans intérêt et larmes sans couleur
Il ne demande rien, il n’est pas insensible
Il fait un triste temps, il fait une nuit noire
A ne pas mettre un aveugle dehors. Les forts
Sont assis, les faibles tiennent le pouvoir
Et le roi est debout près de la reine assise
Sourires et soupirs, des injures pourrissent
Dans la bouche de muets et...
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Ooo the greasy wheel it goes round
The humming of the breeze it makes a...
– Laurie Anderson - “The island where I came from”
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Ce qui importe, dit Nietzsche, ce n’est pas la vie éternelle, c’est...
– Albert Camus
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To Urania
Everything has its limit, including sorrow.A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon a leaf. One may rattle the keys, gurgle down a swallow. Loneliness cubes a man at random. A camel sniffs at the rail with a resentful nostril; a perspective cuts emptiness deep and even. And what is space anyway if not the body’s absence at every given point? That’s why Urania’s older...
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Silence is so accurate.
– Mark Rothko
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Is there another love than that of darkness, a love that would cry aloud in...
– Albert Camus, “The adulterous woman”
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Resolutions
by Franz Kafka
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
To lift yourself out of a miserable mood, even if you have to do it by strength of will, should be easy. I force myself out of my chair, stride around the table, exercise my head and neck, make my eyes sparkle, tighten the muscles around them. Defy my own feelings, welcome A. enthusiastically supposing he comes to see me, amiably tolerate B. in...
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