“I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen.”
- Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding
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(…) what happened (to Kafka) is the same as what happened to me:
he withdrew
he went too far into solitude
and knew — he must’ve known —
you never come back from there
Alejandra Pizarnik, from Psychopathology Ward in “Extracting The Stone Of Madness: Poems”
[translated by Yvette Siegert]
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch, Moralia (via philosophybits)