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It’s been a long day
…Days too small to fill their slots,
days too large for the day to hold them.
And days, no matter what their size,
that leaked into the next.
A leaky day is a dangerous thing…
– Richard Siken, from The Field of Rooms and Halls
Notes:
- Artist: Albert György with sculpture titled Mélancolie. Photo: “Statue at Melancholy Lake“. (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)
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It’s been a long day
To whom does my brain belong?
With what can I or you resist?
Within me disorder
While my brain seeks its order, at almost any price …
~ Göran Sonnevi, from Mozart’s Third Brain
Notes:
- Quote – via Distance Between Two Doors.
- Sculpture: park_ki_pyung/ Blind alley / Resin, steel / 2016 (via Your Eyes Blaze Out)
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It’s been a long day
It is perfectly possible — indeed, it is far from uncommon — to go to bed one night, or wake up one morning, or simply walk through a door one has known all one’s life, and discover, between inhaling and exhaling, that the self one has sewn together with such effort is all dirty rags, is unusable, is gone: and out of what raw material will one build a self again? The lives of men — and, therefore, of nations — to an extent literally unimaginable, depend on how vividly this question lives in the mind. It is a question which can paralyze the mind, of course.
~ James Baldwin from “Nothing Personal,” in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction
Notes:
- Quote – via Brainpickings. Photo: Andrew Tarnawczyk (via mennyfox55)
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It’s been a long day
How strong they could want something and how dissatisfied they were with having.
Why was having never enough?
And why did wanting always feel so real?
~ Catherine Lacey, from “The Answers: A Novel” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 6, 2017)
Notes:
- Sources: Photo: Hidden Sanctuary.
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