LifeinLife Books

30/12/2019

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves”
― Julio Cortázar

30/12/2019

“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

25/02/2019

“Since olden times, there has rarely been a sage who was wealthy.”

Yoshida Kenko, 14th-century philosopher

18/01/2019

“This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”

—Mary Oliver

19/11/2018

In his 1978 essay on Sontag’s book, John Berger writes: “If we want to put a photograph back into the context of experience, social experience, social memory, we have to respect the laws of memory.”

22/10/2018

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot
recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

Emily Dickinson

24/08/2018

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Scientific American (1992), Vol. 267.

John Archibald Wheeler

17/03/2018

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

27/02/2018

"The essential point is to consider love as a spectrum. There is not, as it were just nice love and nasty love, spiritual love and material love, mature affection on the one hand and infatuation on the other. These are all forms of the same energy. And you have to take it and let it grow where you find it. When you find only one of these forms existing, if at least you will water it, the rest will blossom as well. But the effectual prerequisite from the beginning is to let it have its own way."
- Alan Watts, The Spectrum of Love

24/11/2017

There is no difference between what a book talks about and how it is made.
Deleuze, Guattari, A thousand plateaus

23/11/2017

SE CALHAR IDADE
(o livro-encontro)

"O encontro é uma ferida. Uma ferida que, de uma maneira tão delicada quanto brutal, alarga o possível e o pensável, sinalizando outros mundos e outros modos para se viver juntos, ao mesmo tempo que subtrai passado e futuro com a sua emergência disruptiva.
O encontro só é mesmo encontro quando a sua aparição acidental é percebida como oferta, aceite e retríbuída. Dessa implicação recíproca emerge um meio, um ambiente mínimo cuja duração se irá, aos poucos, desenhando, marcando e inscrevendo como paisagem comum. O encontro, então, só se efectua – só termina de emergir e começa a acontecer – se for reparado e consecutivamente contra-efectuado – isto é, assistido, manuseado, cuidado, (re)feito a cada vez in-terminável."

O encontro só é mesmo encontro quando a sua aparição acidental é percebida como oferta, aceite e retríbuída. Dessa implicação recíproca emerge um meio, um ambiente mínimo cuja duração se irá, aos poucos, desenhando, marcando e inscrevendo como paisagem comum. O encontro, então, só se efectua – só te...

16/11/2017

In Proust, laziness first combats easy ambitions, then laziness becomes patience, and patience becomes tireless work, a feverish impatience fighting with time when time is counted.
showing us how the writers are threatened, and how much they need energy, inertia, vacancy, attention, distraction, to go to the end of what they propose. It is this aspect the secret intimate patience, by which one gives oneself time.