Jane Austen, Sense And Sensibility

“There is a kind of person for whom an enthusiasm for boredom represents the beginning of philosophy.”

— Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

—The Picture of Dorian Gray - O. Wilde

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

“You have it now and that is all your life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that?”

— For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

— Haruki Murakami

birds hover the trampled field, richard siken

“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”

— Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “The Fig,”

She naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel herself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography