Quotes About Reflection

Je mets pas mal de choses d'abord sur mon papier ; ensuite j'ajoute la simplicité.

That is what is most lacking in our people," she said, "they do not think.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

I suspect you knew: to live is to be irradiated. It is a sacrifice, this life.

Does our reading life balance or subvert our waking life?

Ask kin-tsugi, the Japanese art of "golden joinery," in which a broken bowl is fixed and seamed with glow, cracks to the forefront, filled in by gold, rendering the repaired thing more remarkable, honoring its shatter. The result is neither broken nor unbroken, but both at once, shadow, object, corona around an eclipsed sun. Own the ways we break, it seems to say: understand that the fault lines of a mind or body are individual, and honor them.

Like mirror script, to read requires reflection, asks us to see ourselves holding the page.

Sammen finder vi ikke hinanden, men vi begynder måske at finde os selv.

Generally speaking, no matter what you're trying to do, you need feedback to identify exactly where and how you are falling short. Without

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

The more I saw, however, the more I needed to see. I tried to settle down back home in Los Angeles, but I missed that feeling, that rush. I went to see a doctor about it. He told me I should slow down for a while, take a break. I just nodded and left, booked a flight out that day. It didn't seem possible to stop.

whatever problem you have with someone, project yourself into the other person and see it from their point of view.

But does one not, when coming out of an Italian film, feel better, an urge to change the order of things, preferably by persuading people, at least those who can be persuaded, whom only blindness, prejudice, or ill-fortune had led to harm their fellow men?

Partir pour le pôle intérieur de soi-même.

Je préfère, encore une fois, marcher dans la nuit à me croire celui qui marche dans le jour.

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognized itself.

Puisque tu existes, comme toi seule sais exister, il n'était peut-être pas très nécessaire que ce livre existât. J'ai cru pouvoir en décider autrement, en souvenir de la conclusion que je voulais lui donner avant de te connaître et que ton irruption dans ma vie n'a pas à mes yeux rendue vaine. Cette conclusion ne prend même son vrai sens et toute sa force qu'à travers toi.

La vie est lente et l'homme ne sait guère la jouer.

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call; where everything hanging from the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

Who are you?" And she, without a moment's hesitation. "I am the soul in limbo.

She uses a new image to make me understand how she lives: it's like the morning when she bathes and her body withdraws while she stares at the surface of the bath water. 'I am the thought on the bath in the room without mirrors.

I knew everything, so hard have I tried to read in my streams of tears.