July 5, 2009“I sense all the things that I write here, these associations, as an attempt to read a text, and this text contains a mass of bright fragments.”
–Paul Valery
[Context: In 1897, Paul Valery abandoned publishing to focus on his journal writings, what he called “an infinite conversation with the self.” For the rest of his life his life centered around rising at 5a to write down his thoughts and meditations in his notebooks (carnets). He would ultimately fill more than 250 of them.]
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