#age

Life Without Work To do nothing In this day and age, When so much pointless work Is being produced, Could almost be considered an achievement. It all compares most unfavorably With my own imaginary Body of work. ↗

— John Tottenham

#work #age

Des occasions précieuses, des possibilités, des sentiments qu’on ne pourra pas retrouver. C’est cela aussi, vivre. Mais à l’intérieur de notre esprit – je crois que c’est à l’intérieur de notre esprit, il y a une petite pièce dans laquelle nous stockons le souvenir de toutes ces occasions perdues. Une pièce avec des rayonnages, comme dans cette bibliothèque, j’imagine. Et il faut que nous fabriquions un index, avec des cartes de références, pour connaître précisément ce qu’il y a dans nos cœurs. Il faut aussi balayer cette pièce, l’aérer, changer l’eau des fleurs. En d’autres termes, tu devras vivre dans ta propre bibliothèque. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#imagination

You stand fully clothed in a dark room with a spotlight on you. It’s bright but not blinding. So bright, you think the light should warm you. “Will you take off your clothes now, please.” he says from the dark. A calm voice, but definitely a commanding voice. I can imagine when it’s raised it could be, but in all the time he never raised it, the tone was always just right; even when he would say. “Yes, please let me hear you moan now. Louder” It was always pitched just right. Except that one time. ↗

— Germaine Gibson

#erotica #imagination

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#language #street #imagination

When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#imagination

... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#ageing #life #age

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. ↗

— Timothy Ferriss

#language #sports #tarzan #friendship

Imagination is thinking beyond language. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#language #thinking #imagination

Imagine if we were capable of a form of empathy that lets us know one another by savoring the aura we leave on the things we have touched. We would go to a dump to get drunk on one another's souls. ↗

— Robin Nagle

#imagination

You will sustain your rage, using time as a defense against fear and indolence. In the great stash of defenses, time is the one least imaginative. ↗

— Marlena De Blasi

#time #imagination