réflexions

 

“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence

which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

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nothing

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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solitude descending

 

“Man loves company even if it is only

that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

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all our being ends

 

“At the moment when we end, all our being ends with us.”

 

~ Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau ~

 

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étreinte de l’ange

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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cracks and crevices

 

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

 

~ Thomas Nagel ~

 

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the river flows

 

“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,

breathe under water till the end,

yes, the river knows…”

 

~ Robbie Krieger ~

 

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ces vieilles mains

 

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

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the event horizon

 

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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pure, simple nothing

 

“I love to talk about nothing.

It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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ombres sur mon mur

 

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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AN ABSENCE OF EVERYTHING

 

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain

on silence and nothingness.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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THE ANGEL OF DEATH

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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NOTHING AT ALL

 

“Belief never was, is not and will never be truth.”

 

~ Erik Barth ~

 

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WEATHERED

 

“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”

 

~ Michelle Cliff ~

 

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LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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STILLLEBEN

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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ONE THIN WIRE

 

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

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TICK…TICK…TICK

 

“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.”

 

~ Dante Alighieri ~

 

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ONE WAY STREET

 

“Well it’s such a strange world that I’m living in,

she was my woman and she was my friend,

but I was wrong again…”

 

~ Leon Russell ~

 

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