“It Isn’t Necessary That You Leave Home. Sit At Your Desk And Listen. Don’t Even Listen, Just Wait.

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

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5 months ago

“Incense, with its sweetsmelling perfume and high-ascending smoke, can be compared to a sincere, earnest prayer which, enkindled by the fire of concentration, rises up as a pleasant offering.”

Anna Riva;

Magic With Incense and Powders: 850 Rituals and Uses With Chants and Prayers

(via liminalblessings)

5 months ago

“You came into my life — not as one comes to visit … but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

5 months ago

“Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?”

— Euripides, Medea

5 months ago

“I have been woman for a long tine beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic”

— Audre Lorde, from her porm “A Woman speaks”

4 years ago

Portugese

ne·fe·li·ba·ta

/nefilēbätä/ 

noun a cloud walker; an individual who lives in the “clouds” of her own imagination or dreams. 

4 years ago

Ergoter

- Dénominal de ergot, petit doigt surmonté d’un ongle pointu qui sert au combat chez les oiseaux mâles.

-(1534) Du latin ergo (« donc ») dont les docteurs scolastiques faisaient grand usage, souvent à vide. On le retrouve dans le fameux cogito (Cogito ergo sum) de Descartes, dans un tout autre contexte.

♦Contester quelque chose avec des raisonnements spécieux ; discuter sur des futilités ; chicaner

♦Contredire quelqu'un avec une obstination lassante sur des minuties en lui opposant des arguments excessivement subtils et captieux

Ergotage, subst. masc.Manie, action d'ergoter; arguties.

Ergoterie, subst. fém.Ergotage. Savez-vous bien que le bon sens militaire s'offense de ces sortes d'ergoteries? Tu n'aimes pas, tu n'aimes pas! Qu'est-ce que ces ergotages?

chicaner (vieux) - chinoiser (familier) - chipoter (familier) - disputailler - pointiller - ratiociner (littéraire) - vétiller


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5 months ago

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Humiliated and Insulted

5 months ago
Oscar Wilde, From At Verona

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

5 months ago
Anne Brontë, The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

5 months ago

“It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupére 

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