novembre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I began to see myself in others. "Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it. However great the private disasters to which love may lead, love itself is strikingly and mysteriously impersonal; it is a reality which is not altered by anything one does. Therefore, one does many things, turns the key in the lock over and over again, hoping to be locked out. Once locked out, one will never again be forced to encounter in the eyes of a stranger who loves him the impenetrable truth concerning the stranger, oneself, who is loved. And yet -- one would prefer, after all, not to be locked out. One would prefer, merely, that the key unlocked a less stunningly unusual door." from Tell me how long the train's been gone by James Baldwin, 1968. 1:51 pm - 11.02.09 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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