fragments: life and love

"fragmentation of human experience"
Heiner Bielefeldt. "Epilogue: Modern Liberalism and Kant." Symbolic Representation in Kant's Practical Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2003. p.187. (link)

"Socrates: Heracleitus says, you know, that all things move and nothing remains still, and he likens the universe to the current of a river, saying that you cannot step twice into the same stream." Cratylus (402a). (link)

"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."
Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild. Doubleday, 1995.

"Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark".
- from song "Choro Bandido" ("Crying Bandit", literally) by Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo.
 
"When I think of what I've lost, I ask, 'Who knows themselves better than the blind?' - for every thought becomes a tool."
Jorge Luis Borges. Siete Noches. Obras Completas, vol. III. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1994.