Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
All you see is this bright flash, for maybe a quarter of a second. It was like so many things that happen to us in life: a bright instant, never to be recaptured.
Marina Abramovic • Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Everything is temporary. When a mood is so overwhelming we tend to mistake the intensity of it for the longevity of it
realized I had come on the remains of some ancient tribe that had lived in towns or cities, a tribe so long extinct no one remembered they had ever lived.
Philipp Meyer • The Son
We share our filter, our way of seeing, in order to spark an echo in others. Art is a reverberation of an impermanent life.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
The frightening reality beneath Diarna’s efforts is the same one that haunted me as a child. The disappearance of these communities is just an acute (and sometimes violent) version of what eventually happens to every community, everywhere. All of us will die; all of our memories will be lost.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Everything has its season,
all exists in oscillation.
But such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable.
Abraham Verghese • The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
“Grief, by its nature, is cyclical. It gives us the promise of peace at its end.”
When it comes to things like relationships, the bonds we form are ever-evolving and impossible to fossilize, just as the living internet will always trace back to links that stop functioning. But if the internet is fundamentally not meant for keeping, I’d still like to imagine what more it has to offer us.
The frailty of profit-oriented projects tha
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