SA4QE - The Slickman A4 Quotation Event
Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart. In love or in terror or in loathing one responds to them with the true self; fidelity is not an act of the will: the soul is compelled by recognitions. Anyone who loves, anyone who perceives the other person fully can only be faithful, can never be unfaithful to the sea and the mountains and the death in that person, so pitiful and heroic is it to be a human being.
I woke up. There you are, I thought; life goes on.
“Hear the earth say itself, ponderous with evening, turning to the night.”
"The real thing is always more than you're ready for."
“I’m not sure of anything right now,” I confessed. “I may be a figment of my own imagination.”
“But that’s all anyone is; it’s the human condition. We’re given a name at birth and photographs are taken. We come to be known by name and face and from this we piece together an identity and fix it in memory. This identity is not physically part of us; a knock on the head can make it go away."
Time after time had violent men sharpened the cross into a sword and made their silken vestments into banners; time after time had they spat out the wafer and the wine and shouted for real blood and real bodies.
“If we'd been edible we'd never have lasted this long.”
"Here's to you Cyd. We'll stay danced with."