December 2009
15 posts
I really want to go to Barcelona.
“All my good manners have moved a thousand miles away.”
Sehnsucht
“Sehnsucht is a German word that literally means “longing” or in a wider sense a kind of “intensely missing”. However, Sehnsucht is almost impossible to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state. Its meaning is somewhat similar to the Portugese word, saudade. The stage director and author Georg Tabori called Sehnsucht one of those quasi-mystical terms...
“There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and...”
– Bruno Schulz (Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass)
“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless...”
– Arundhati Roy
“Simple questions often have the most awkward consequences.”