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Vladimir Nabokov • Selected Poems
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
‘You can only wish as long as you remember your world. These people here used up all their memories. Without a past you can’t have a future. That’s why they don’t get older. Just look at them. Would you believe that some of them have been here a thousand years and more? But they stay just as they are. Nothing can change for them, because they
... See moreMichael Ende • The Neverending Story
And for sheer poetic perfection:
“I too am lost; I leave no trace, no mark;
I am a shadow cast upon the dark,
A drop sunk in the sea, and it is vain
To search the sea for that one drop again.” (pg. 213)
Nobody tells you that the experiences once so clear within your mind can fade into nonexistence; nobody tells you that you will eventually think about every last thing that haunts you for the very last time, and you will not even realize it is the last.
Brianna Wiest • The Pivot Year
💡 on souls
Molly Simpson • 6 cards
Obstructing death is futile, but those of us in the realm of the living might be compelled to preserve the ruins left in its wake
I know the foolishness of wanting to find here anything more than dust and mold and broken, abandoned things. And yet, I touched the edge of the bed in the room where Cy slept. Touched the dust on the shelf of Tatia’s bookshelf. Touched the holes in the wall, those spaces where nails tacked canvas. “The desire to touch,” writes John Berger, “is,
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