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Un relámpago
y el grito de la garza
hondo en lo obscuro...
Matsuo Basho

El cielo
abrasado por el sol
llora
fecundas lágrimas.
Pero bosque
herido por el viento
llora
hojas muertas.
James Clawell

Poema 14
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos
Pablo Neruda

Ella qui sap on és,
ella qui sap on para.
La vaig perdre i mai més
no he tornat a trobar-la.
Joan Manuel Serrat

Nostalgia
Esta tristeza que me dejaste
escondida entre los pliegues de mis manos
no se parece a la caída de la nieve.
Aquella dulzura que traías
impregnando tus ojos de paisaje
no se quedó en mi vida como un recuerdo.
Esa música abandonada
en los rincones de la noche
ya no alienta la nostalgia ni tu ausencia.
Andrés Casanova

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Love bullshite

  • «Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love... John Le Carre»

  • «Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never... Charles Caleb Colton»

  • «The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end... Benjamin Disraeli»

  • «Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so... David Grayson»

  • «...les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent le goût des lèvres dont elles sortent... Guy de Maupassant»

  • «A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her... Oscar Wilde»

  • «First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time... Honoré de Balzac»

  • «Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic... Anaïs Nin»

  • «When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough... Maurice Maeterlinck»

  • «True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked... Erich Segal»

  • «We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them... Anaïs Nin»

  • «Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects... Oscar Wilde»

  • «Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual... Octavio Paz»

  • «...metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love... Milan Kundera»

  • «Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves... Milan Kundera»

  • «When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object... Milan Kundera»

  • «A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary... Ingrid Bergman»

  • «Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire... La Rochefoucald»

  • «Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm»

  • «Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction... Antoine de Saint-Exupery»

  • «Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more... Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman»

  • «Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it... Michel de Montaigne»

  • «Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember... Oscar Levant»

  • «A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her... Oscar Wilde»

Asorted bullshite

  • «Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement... Anonymous»

  • «La religión existe desde que el primer hipócrita encontró al primer imbécil... Voltaire»

  • «Anything too stupid to be said is sung... Voltaire»

  • «Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim... Bertrand Russell»

  • «What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left... Oscar Levant»

  • «An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations... Charles de Montesquieu»

  • «I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself... Marlene Dietrich»

  • «The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way... Bertrand Russell»

  • «Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards... Soren Kierkegaard»

  • «We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones... La Rochefoucauld»

  • «With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion... Steven Weinberg»

  • «The secret of being a bore is to tell everything... Voltaire»

  • «I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions... Augusten Burroughs»

  • «It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious... Oscar Wilde»

  • «It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative... John Burroughs»

  • «The future is much like the present, only longer... Dan Quisenberry»

  • «The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised... George F. Will»

  • «We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems... John W. Gardner»

  • «The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously... Henry Kissinger»

  • «The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously... Henry Kissinger»

  • «You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you... Eric Hoffer»

  • «When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it... Anatole France»

  • «Facts are the enemy of truth... Miguel de Cervantes»

  • «A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body... Someone»

  • «Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome... Isaac Asimov»

  • «Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand... Kurt Vonnegut»

Kunderisms

Milan Kundera

«El hombre atraviesa el presente con los ojos vendados. Sólo puede intuir y adivinar lo que de verdad está viviendo. Y después, cuando le quitan la venda de los ojos, puede mirar al pasado y comprobar qué es lo que ha vivido y cuál era su sentido.»

«El sentido de la vida consiste en divertirse viviendo y que, si la vida es demasiado holgazana para que eso sea posible, no hay más remedio que darle un empujoncito. Uno debe cabalgar permanentemente a lomos de las historias, esos potros raudos sin los cuales se arrastraría uno por el polvo como un peón aburrido.»

«Es inútil pretender atacar con razonamientos el firme muro de sentimientos irracionales con los que, al parecer, está modelada el alma de la mujer.»

«..la vida individual de los seres humanos imita la historia de los seres humanos; al comienzo está sumergida en una inmóvil lentitud y luego, poco a poco, se va acelerando cada vez más.»

«Cuando crees en algo al pie de la letra, terminas por exagerar las cosas ad absurdum. El verdadero partidario de determinada política nunca se toma en serio sus sofismas, sino tan sólo los objetivos prácticos que se ocultan tras estos sofismas.»

«...no es tan difícil seducir a una chica como, si tenemos unas elevadas exigencias cuantitativas en este sentido, conocer siempre a una cantidad suficiente de chicas a las que hasta ahora no hemos seducido. Por eso es necesario siempre, en cualquier sitio y en cualquier situación, llevar a cabo un amplio registro, es decir apuntar, en un libro de notas o en la memoria, los nombres de las mujeres que han llamado nuestra atención y con las que alguna vez podríamos contactar. El contacto ya es un nivel más elevado de actividad e implica que establecemos con determinada mujer una relación, que la conocemos, que logramos tener acceso a ella. Si uno disfruta mirando hacia atrás para vanagloriarse, pone el acento en los nombres de las mujeres amadas; pero si mira hacia delante, hacia el futuro, debe preocuparse, sobre todo, de tener a suficientes mujeres registradas y contactadas.»

«Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.»

«Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.»

«No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.»

«There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.»

«Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.»

«Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.»

«Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.»

«Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.»

«Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.»

«When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.»

«Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.»

«The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse. Yes, the right to kill a deer or a cow is the only thing all of mankind can agree upon, even during the bloodiest of wars.»

«Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.»

«Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?»

«The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?»


Sunday, September 03, 2006

Kamakura and good-bye to the Kado family

After a few hours of sleep, and a light hangover, I went to Yokohama to meet Andy... The final destination: Kamakura!

My damn cell phone died, so it took me some time to find Andy. Finally we saw each other and took the train for Kamakura... In Kamakura, as in Kyoto, rickshamen!Cute local train for Hase, the place of the Great Buddha...Me, looking as a tourist in the entrance to the Hase Kannon shrine...Armory, the evil shop guy didn't allowed me to have a picture with the giant sword...This is Albarnos, a Moroccan old man who speaks spanish!From Albarnos-san, Andy bought a shiny omiyage for Kyouko-chan...Lunchtime, a massive chinese set...Andy after eating, 2 Kg heavier... I only dared to look at him through the mirror...The Kamakura Daibutsu, the Great Budhha, the 2nd largest in Japan after the one in Nara.
I am an atheist, I think religion and spirituality are resources for the weak... But before the Buddha, I feel respect....We headed then to the Hase-dera, a temple of Kannon (Kuan Yin), a female deity related to the Buddha. The large wooden statue of Her has a crown with 18 heads... Unfortunately no pictures of the godess are allowed...This is an internet (probably ilegally taken) picture of Kannon...The Hase-dera also has a system of caves, containing statues of deities...Andy and me lighted two candles after writing our names on them, and offered to deities while asking for...
Andy: peace of mindMe: love...Caves were interconected by narrow and low-ceiling passages...And more Buddha-related deities....The shrine terrains are beautiful, plenty of details as only the Japanese can conceive...Even this falcon (I guess) was in harmony with the environment...From the resting area, we could watch the nearby beach... The next destination!
In our way to da beach, we found a candy shop decorated with all kind of 70's anime robot characters....El Gladiador, cuyo cuerpo es la cabeza del Gran Dragon del Espacio...
The beach was full of surfers, male and female... Quite dirty too...Andy captured my rest...We stayed for a while, and then started the long way back home...

In the way back to the eki, we found this small shrine-park..Andy featuring Atlas, holding the tori...
In the Hase station...Andy is so genki that he works-out even in the train...In Yokohama eki, our last genki-cha together...Akio Kado, you are my best friend in Japan, I feel honored for your friendship, and shocked by your kindness. Good luck in Germany, and let me tell you that otousan is right... you are a good man. Kyouko-chan Kado, Andy is very lucky of having such a wonderful woman as you are. Thank you for everything! Enjoy the after-IUJ life, and please keep on learning Spanish ...Hope to see you again someday and somewhere!
Postdata: Kyou-chan did like her souvenir!!!
Eventually, I arrived home...

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