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Here I Am
«Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
autobiography, discontinuities, discontinuity, extensive, fleeting, Here I Am, recollection, reminiscence, reminiscences, The Sequence
«Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; / And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: / And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.»
«I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied... In spite of everything I survive.»
«Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
awkwardness, barrier, discourses, discoursing, disenfranchised, embarrassment, embarrassments, gracious, Here I Am, shuts, sweet talk, talk to me, The Discourses, The Embarrassment, the senses, The Sweet, Utopia, Utopias
«In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how c»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
assertion, Here I Am, poles, positive pole
