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Category: Edmund de Waal

Even when one is no longer attached to things, it’s still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn’t grasp…’ There are the places in memory you do not wish to go with others.

attachments, memories, things

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

language-learning, languages, travel

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.

burning, letting-go

All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unsteady on the edge of life like a swan before an anxious launching of himself on the floods where he is gently caught.

art, artist, artistic-expression, swan

There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult’s sense of pitch.

childhood, childhood-memory, children, experiences, sounds

There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult’s sense of pitch.

childhood, childhood-memory, children, experiences, sounds