“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thin...

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” Dissent - as proof of life

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Comme le dit le proverbe : « Seuls les poissons morts suivent le courant. »

David Corona • Négocier : Face à la violence. Avec ses émotions. Pour trouver son chemin (Essai) (French Edition)

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Teju Cole • Open City

When I interviewed Andrea Gibson last year, they shared a line that they loved from a poem by Saul Williams: “only believers in death will die.” When I asked what they took that line to mean, Andrea said: “I don't think that what's real can die. I don't think consciousness can die. And I don't believe love can die. I don't know if there's anything... See more