Keith [on semi hiatus]

“In the evening or after the rain, the whole earth, its womb moist with a seed redolent of bitter almond, rests after having given herself to the sun all summer long.”
― Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

“There is nothing more dangerous than an insidious enemy, but there is nothing more poisonous than a feigned friend.”
― Gregory Skovoroda

“We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. ’Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designes...We whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time, are providentially taken off from such imaginations.”
― Thomas Browne, Religio Medici / Urne-Buriall

“Liza,” she said, “how perfect are the works of the creation. I have passed upwards of sixty years in admiration of the blessings of providence, and I still find new causes for our gratitude.”
― Nikolay Karamzin, Poor Liza and Other Tales