“He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.”
Quien me tiene de un hilo no es fuerte; lo fuerte es el hilo.
Voces (1943)
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Quien me tiene por un hilo no es fuerte, fuerte es el hilo.
Variant: Quien me tiene de un hilo no es fuerte; lo fuerte es el hilo.
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Antonio Porchia 276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
“Logos, the invisible spider’s thread that holds our lives together.”
Liquidation (2003)
Context: But I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone. If you have a concept of the world, if you have not yet forgotten all that has happened, that you have a world at all, it is writing that has created that for you, and ceaselessly goes on creating it; Logos, the invisible spider’s thread that holds our lives together.
“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
“A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines.”
Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0106.2/0405.html.
“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
“Life is a thread that someone entangled.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A vida é um novelo que alguém emaranhou.