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The river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the present time for it, not the shadow of the past, not the shadow of the future.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922)

4w ago

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

1mo ago

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. The object of living is life itself, and yet we continually sacrifice it to something beyond.

1mo ago

The task of life is not so much to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

4mo ago

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Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time

Time is divided into two rivers: one flows backward, devouring life already lived; the other moves forward with you exposing your life. For a single second they may be joined. Now.

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