Angila Pollina

“The children of the Indians are saved, to be sold or given away as servants, or rather slaves, for as long a time as the owners can deceive them; but I believe in this respect there is little to complain of.”
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

“I want to be gone out of myself, and you to be lost to yourself, so we are found different.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Like snow melt
and passing leaves,
we show our faces
then are gone,
and like rivers we pour.”
― Don Hynes