Patricia

“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed, and in my better moments think so still, that it would be possible in this manner to participate in the existence of everyone; such sympathy would be one of the least revocable kinds of immortality.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
― Virginia Woolf

“the dank night is sweeping down from the sky
and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.”
― Virgil

“For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is at least partly responsible for one's actions, and if one is partly responsible one is wholly responsible; for responsibility is, as they say, that state in which the individual has the power to devote himself to a specific purpose of his own free will, independently of any compelling necessity, and one cannot simultaneously possess and lack such self-determination.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Volume I