Matthias

“I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden