Curt Hamil

“The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves. ”
― Katherine Dunn

“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein