Thursday, October 15, 2015

thoughtful thursday

gontran de poncins in kabloona:

"together we spent hours like this, reading in the great book of silence. he learnt its lessons in childhood; i have come from afar to spell them out with extreme difficulty. they have taught me, above all, to discard things; haste, worry, rebelliousness, selfishness. it has taken me a year to learn these lessons and i see suddenly that my year in the north has not been, as i thought it, a year of conquest of the elements, but of conquest of myself....."

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