Tag: becoming
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‘And I who have barely started my journey, I start it with a sense of tragedy, guessing toward which lost ocean my steps of life are leading. And madly I take control of the recesses of myself, my ravings suffocate me with so much beauty. I am before, I am almost, I am never. And…
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‘I suspect that desperation is what made her so daring, even though she didn’t know she was desperate, she was on her last legs, face-down in the dirt.’ – Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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‘Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.’ – Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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‘It is only in pain that a woman is able to rise above mediocrity.’ – Colette, Vagabond
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‘This was the first time she had ever worn an evening dress. She stood for a long time before the mirror. She was so tall that the dress came up two or three inches above her ankles – and the shoes were so short they hurt her. She stood in front of the mirror a…
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‘Step outside, summertime’s in bloom.’ – Oasis, Don’t Look Back In Anger
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‘I want to be strong I want to laugh along I want to belong to the living Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive Do you want – do you want – do you want To dance with me baby.’ – Joni…
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‘I really don’t know life at all.’ – Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now
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‘But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that…
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. – Rumi
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– Andy Warhol, Untitled (Boy with Pears), 1956
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‘And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was “becoming”. Wasn’t it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?’ –…
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‘No, she told them softly from the bottom of her new truth, no… The faces turned to smoke, for she had always been. For her body had never needed anyone, it was free. For she had walked through the streets. She drank water, had abolished God, the world, everything… …And with each instant she fell…
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‘It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space.’ – Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
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‘It is curious that I can’t say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can’t say it… I feel who I am and the impression is lodged in the highest part of my brain, on my lips (especially on my tongue), on the surface of my arms…
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‘Obviously, raising the voice compels attention and incites fear, but was she bold? Did I want to be bold like her? What shade of bold was I after?’ – Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
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“I read a science fiction story a long time ago where these people are exploring space and they finally find this habitable planet – and it turns out to be identical to Earth in every detail. And I thought that was the supreme irony: that they’d originally left to find something better and arrived in…
Roseena Veronika Hussain 