kellypocket (kellypocket) wrote, @ 2003-08-30 21:25:00

:if we knew when the world would end...:
i think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies-our life-hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of failure, delays them incessantly.
but let all this threaten to become impossible forever, how beautiful it would become again! ah! if only the cataclysm doesn't happen this time, we won't miss visiting the new galleries of the louvre, throwing ourselves at the feet if Miss X, making a trip to india.
the cataclysm doesn't happen, we don't do any of it, because we find ourselves back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire. and yet we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today. it would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening.
-proust

we should take a lesson from him.
crepes are good, sugar ones...
walking along st. germain on sat. night, nice.
walking in the post-rain paris sunset, with the breeze in my face, better.
c.g.t. i miss you

	(Anonymous) 2003-09-04 15:38 (link)
	I'm trying to get unstuck, so I may wander freely. Love Jen (Reply to this) (Thread)