Chris

“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.”
― José Saramago

“There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a fleeting beauty--like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow