And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
– Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago) (via rememo)
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.
– From ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ by Milan Kundera
CORINNE BAILEY RAE(editors cover) – MUNICH
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‘Munich’ (Editors cover) by Corrine Bailey Rae
Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning…speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my whole body felt completely devoid of life and utterly without meaning. A character in one of Edith Wharton’s novels says that “the real loneliness comes from all these kind faces who only ask one to pretend…
– Sarah Emily Miano
"And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?"
"Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood."
CORINNE BAILEY RAE(editors cover) – MUNICH
‘Munich’ (Editors cover) by Corrine Bailey Rae
Keep me where the light is.
"Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning…speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my whole body felt completely devoid of life and utterly without meaning. A character in one of Edith Wharton’s novels says that “the real loneliness comes from all these kind faces who only ask one to pretend…"
