Ami

“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Civilizations, from the perspective of history, are shown to be the outcome of mixtures and borrowings, often of quite arbitrary things, but always on a prodigious scale.”
― David Wengrow, What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées