Aaron

“this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and the sublation of this distinction, one speaks emptily of it.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.”
― John Updike

“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”
― Robert Littell

“How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions