wednesdaybookquote

'To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live. But with our creaturely capacity for wonder comes a responsibility to it—the recognition what reality is not a singularity but a plane. Each time we presume to have seen the whole, the plane tilts ever so slightly to reveal new vistas of truth and new horizons of mystery, staggering us with the sudden sense that we had been looking at only a fragment, framed by our parochial point of view.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova

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Then all of a sudden, with a joy that I had not known within myself, I said: “If you want to spend the rest of your life listening and watching this nonsense, that’s up to you, but just now I’ve realized I want to spend my life doing something beautiful.” -- from 'The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen' by Shokoofeh Azar; (translator is anonymous for security reasons)

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"Time has a tendency to switch around. It’s as cunning as a fox, and it can be malicious. It can flow in one direction and simultaneously in the opposite one. We only think it’s always flowing along with us, and that our life sets its boundaries. Nothing could be further from the truth. It pulls us where it will. Backwards, to when we didn’t yet exist, and forwards to where we’ll no longer be there. It plays with us, fully aware that there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s not hard to play with human beings." -- from 'Needle's Eye' by Wiesław Myśliwski; trans. Bill Johnston

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