Day: February 9, 2017

There is no holding on in thin air. You have to advance step by step, and each step is a new illusion since it is not suspended freely in the air. If he who strives upward were to pause ever so slightly upon each step-be it ever so low-if he were to touch it only with the tips of his toes, then, at the moment of contact, he too would not be suspended freely; he too is chained to the language of this very moment, of this very step. And this would be true even if, for this moment, he had built language and step himself