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“…I still cannot accept the moment for what it is. I know it will pass. Self-consciousness is the price we pay for the hope of immortality, and it is a high price…..It is perhaps easier to be sedated, to be bored, for at each moment of joyful consciousness comes the knowledge that it will pass; and as time passes, you realize it will never come again. It is more than that. It is an awareness that some of this world is so beautiful that it cannot be described; and greedy and grasping as we are, we want not only to enjoy it, but to tell it—–so that it listens, and in listening becomes fixed—how unknowingly lovely it is. We look for a response from that which is unresponsive—for it takes no account of us, No wonder we dream of death, of a true consumption where longing ceases and the earth itself embraces us until we cannot be told apart, cannot be discerned, and have no more responsibility. This, perhaps, is why we dream of Heaven; this, perhaps, is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gone out of reach”
—Alice Thomas Ellis. 1990
Go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6pEIHtffqQ