Jan 20, 2018

Never To Forget by Arundhati Roy

Never To Forget by Arundhati Roy

To love.
To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance,
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch.
To try and understand.
To never look away.
And never, never to forget.

절대 잊지 말 것

사랑하기를.
사랑받기를.
내 존재의 가치를.
형언할 수 없는 폭력에 굴복하지 않을 것과 
비속한 방법으로 삶의 가치를 가르는 풍경에 익숙해 지지 않을 것.
가장 슬픈 장소에서 즐거움을 발견하기를.
감추어진 곳에서 미(美)를 추구하기를.
복잡한 것을 단순화 하지 말 것과 
단순한 것을 복잡하게 하지 말 것을. 
힘을 존중하되 권력은 절대 아니라는 것을.
무엇보다도 바라보기를.
노력하고 이해하기를.
외면하지 않기를.
그리고 절대, 절대 잊지 않기를. 

Jan 10, 2018

from James Baldwin's "Letter from a Region in My Mind"

We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.