Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
La santé psychique, selon Freud, c’est d’être capable d’aimer et de travailler, et depuis bientôt dix ans j’en étais à ma grande surprise devenu capable.
Emmanuel Carrère • Yoga (Fiction) (French Edition)
As a doctor, I was an agent, a cause; as a patient, I was merely something to which things happened.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Brain Pickings
Seth Kramer • 1 card
Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Bien que je sois fasciné par les grands stylistes comme Joyce, Nabokov et Banville, ce sont les grands « raconteurs » – Dickens, Trollop, Hardy, Tchekhov, Murakami, Dostoïevski, Auster, McEwan – que j’adore vraiment.
Irwin D. Yalom • Une question de mort et de vie (French Edition)
She could almost hear her mind pacing within her skull, caged and bothered, and she felt the weight of all the years she had yet to live, bearing down upon her with heavy menace.
Elizabeth Gilbert • The Signature of All Things: A Novel
Hemingway described his process in similar terms: acquiring rich experiences, then retreating to cogitate and write about them.