Deepak Mehta

Too alone but not alone enough, to make every moment holy!

[ Rilke ]

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@Tina69911364 Everything is inherently contradictory. contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality; it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity.
-Hegel, Science of Logic.

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The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
#Wittgenstein
#Philosophical_Investigation

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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

#Wittgenstein
#Philosophical_Investigations

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#BeforeSunrise
#BeforeSunset

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“Thought's surface: word.
Word's surface: gesture.
Gesture's surface: skin.
Skin's surface: shiver.”

― Vera Pavlova

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A Chinese proverb: “When one dog begins barking at a shadow, ten thousand make it into a reality.”

—An epigraph to any commentary on ideologies.
#Emil_Cioran

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''One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.''
#Emil_Cioran

''For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language." #Joseph_Brodsky

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The mystery of things? What mystery?
The only mystery is that some people think about mystery.

If you’re in the sun and close your eyes, You begin not to know what the sun is, And you think about various warm things. But open your eyes and you see the sun.

#Pessoa

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A magnificent podcast with Herzog.

https://t.co/bO6BXNHjXl

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Fernando Pessoa, [The Book of Disquiet]

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Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
—Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)

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—Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

—Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)

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My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?

—Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet)

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I do not sleep. I half-exist.
—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So that I won’t need a corridor Of thought leading to words.

—Fernando Pessoa (“A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems.”)

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He invented a face for himself.
Behind it,
he lived, died, and was resurrected
many times.
Today his face
has the wrinkles of that face.
His wrinkles have no face.

#Octavio_Paz

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"I put my head
out of my window and see
how much the wind’s knife
wants to slice it off.

On this unseen
guillotine, I’ve placed
the eyeless head
of all my desires.."

#Federico_García_Lorca

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Israeli author Amos Oz just passed away. In 2016, he talked to us about his favorite books, what moves him as a writer and more. https://t.co/fj6XTdR522