Kit

“Though we say that we cannot see the future, its conditions lie all around us. They are as if encrypted. We cannot read them because we lack the key (which will be in our hands only when it is too late to use it). But we see their coded fragments and must call them something. Many aspects of our own contemporary culture might be called premonitory shivers: panicky renderings of unreadable messages about the kind of society we are creating.”
― Philip A. Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768

“We accept reality so readily—perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them—She was the Universe.”
― Lord Byron

“In youth I knew nothing of the taste of sorrow
I liked to climb high towers,
I liked to climb high towers,
To conjure up a bit of sorrow to make new verse.

Now I know only too well the taste of sorrow.
I begin to speak yet pause,
I begin to speak yet pause,
And say instead 'My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
― Xin Qiji