Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. Ulysses
“That’s not the point, Milena, as far as I’m concerned you’re not a woman, you’re a girl, I’ve never seen anyone who was more of a girl than you, and girl that you are, I don’t dare offer you my hand, my dirty, twitching, clawlike, fidgety, unsteady, hot-cold hand.” Letters To Milena
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. Joan of Arc
How many things are now called the worst evil, which are only twelve feet wide and three months long! But some day greater dragons will come into the world. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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