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"But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present and fear the future. When they come to an end of it, the poor wretches realize too late that for all this time they have been preoccupied in doing nothing."
Seneca

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''Indeed, now that I have fixed my eyes upon it, I feel that I have grasped a plank in the sea; I feel a satisfying sense of reality which at once turns the two Archbishops and the Lord High Chancellor to the shadows of shades. Here is something definite, something real. Thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of...''
Virginia Woolf

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"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
Virginia Woolf

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''When we speak the word 'life', it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.''
Antonin Artaud

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"Accumulate, then distribute. Of the mirror of the universe be the part that is densest, most useful and least apparent."
René Char

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"He who is the disciple of Khidr [an invisible master] possesses sufficient inner strength to seek freely the teaching of all masters. Of this the biography of Ibn 'Arabi, who frequented all the masters of his day and welcomed their teachings, offers living proof."
Ibn al-'Arabi
translation and adaptation: Henry Corbin

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"There is a truth of exile and there is a vocation of exile."
Maurice Blanchot

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''Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.''
Emily Dickinson

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''The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.''
Simone Weil

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''To paint a bird's portrait
First of all, paint a cage
with an opened little door...''
Jacques Prévert

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''The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.''
Marcel Proust

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''All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.''
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
Virginia Woolf

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''The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.''
George Berkeley

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''Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.''
Emily Dickinson

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"... A flow of words seeking their most crystal-clear order, snatches of sentences being endlessly reworked, ideas dawning then threatening to evaporate if a word or a symbol didn't swiftly fix them in memory."
André Gorz

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"I long for my mother's bread
My mother's coffee
Her touch
Childhood memories grow up in me
Day after day
I must be worth my life
At the hour of my death
Worth the tears of my mother."
Mahmoud Darwish

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"An ego thus educated has become reasonable; it no longer lets itself be governed by the pleasure principle, but obeys the reality principle, which also at bottom seeks to obtain pleasure, but pleasure which is assured through taking account of reality, even though it is pleasure postponed and diminished."
Sigmund Freud

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''Life itself is a quotation.''
Jorge Luis Borges