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August 16, 2007
don’t think about the future, don’t worry about success
Sometimes I pass little shops-in the rue de Seine, for example. Dealers in second-hand furniture, small used-book sellers, specialists in engravings, with over crowded windows. No one ever walks through their doors; they apparently don’t do any business at all. But if you look in, you can see them sitting there, sitting and reading, without a care in the world; they don’t think about the future, don’t worry about success, have a dog that sits in front of them, wagging its tail, or a cat that makes the silence even greater by gliding along the rows of books, as if it were trying to rub the names off their bindings.
Ah, if only that were enough: I sometimes wish I could buy myself a crowed shop-window like that and sit down behind it, with a dog, for twenty years.
Rilke - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Posted by amin at August 16, 2007 10:30 PM