Paddle your own canoe

“If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.”

[freshmoviequotes]

Asteroid City (2023)

[philosophybits]

“‘Look at me’ is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart.”

— Bertrand Russell, What Desires Are Politically Important?

[apocryphics]

[userbladerunner]

BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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“If you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but… the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.”

— Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— David Foster Wallace

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“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

[xxrrisxx]

When nobody wakes you up in the morning, when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, Freedom or Loneliness?

Charles Bukowski

[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

[tamsoj]

Charles Bukowski, "grip the dark," from The People Look Like Flowers At Last

[quotespile]

“He wanted to bathe in it for five seconds, the future he might be having if it weren’t for everything.”

— Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

[wongkarawai]

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON (2021) dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp

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“The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.”

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”

— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

[ecoharbor]

📍Tellaro, Liguria, Italy 🇮🇹

[maureen2musings]

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