Leaving Himself Behind

        Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this more than anything else brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within.

City of Glass
Paul Auster
1985

photo larry silver

reblogged from  www.weimarart.blogspot.co.uk
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