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“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.”
― The Essential Rumi
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.”
― The Essential Rumi
“...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
― Blue Eyes, Black Hair
― Blue Eyes, Black Hair
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― On Photography
― On Photography
Berta’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Berta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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665 books
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124 books
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71 books
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653 books
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234 books
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261 books
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