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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Dear Friedrich, the world's still false, cruel and beautiful...”
― Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.”
― Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

“For it seems to me now that when I read those books and wrote my words, I read and wrote of a man who bore my name but a man whom I hardly know. Strain as I might, I can hardly see him now; and when I glimpse him, he recedes as in a mist, eluding my most searching gaze. I wonder, if he saw me, would he recognize what he has become? Would he recognize the caricature that all men become of themselves? I do not believe that he would.”
― John Williams, Augustus

“Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back. If, for example, they traveled in a boat on a river, then the river was in some way aware of carrying them on its back and had in fact agreed to it. When they looked up to the stars, the constellations were not simply patterns enabling them to organise what they saw, they were vehicles of meaning, a never-ending flow of information. The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life