“I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.”
— Joan Didion
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
— Joan Didion
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Paris, 2016.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
— Joan Didion
Desires
You look so close and far at night,
filled with plans that are uncertain,
offering illusions, calming down our souls,
giving us high hopes, making us to dream,
leading us together, showing us your force,
making us to wish.
“Nos vies n'ont pas d'importance, elles coulent au fond du temps, pourtant nous avons existé et rien ne l'empêchera: bien que liquides, nos joies ne s'évaporent jamais.”
— Frédéric Beigbeder
