Ag Lashari

“Not a single star will be left in the night.
The night will not be left.
I will die and, with me,
the weight of the intolerable universe.
I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions,
the continents and faces.
I shall erase the accumulated past.
I shall make dust of history, dust of dust.
Now I am looking on the final sunset.
I am hearing the last bird.
I bequeath nothingness to no one.

― Jorge Luis Borges, “The Suicide,” Selected Poems. (Penguin Books; Reprint edition, April 1, 2000) Originally published October 1st 1971.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems

“If my life were complete, it would not be my life, since it would be over. In leading my life, I am not striving for an impossible completion of who I am but for the possible and fragile coherence of who I am trying to be: to hold together and be responsive to the commitments that define who I take myself to be.”
― Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

“That those who are enslaved or live in poverty may need faith in God to carry on with their lives is not a reason to promote religious faith but a reason to abolish slavery and poverty. (27)”
― Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

“We build museums to house history, but it slips out through the cracks of sash and jamb”
― Ihab Hassan, In Quest of Nothing: Selected Essays, 1998-2008