Dan

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“A man comes walking north. He carries a sack, the first sack, containing provisions for the road and some implements. The man is strong and rough-hewn, with a red lion beard and little scars on face and hands, sites of old wounds--were they gotten at work or in a fight? Maybe he has been in jail and wants to go into hiding, or perhaps he is a philosopher looking for peace; in any case, here he comes, a human being in the midst of this immense solitude. He walks and walks, in a silence broken by neither bird nor beast.”
― Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil