Xi

“If you had to choose when, in the timeline of the earth, you got to live—wouldn’t you choose the end? You haven’t missed anything, then. You die in 1920, you miss rock and roll. You die in 1600, you miss Mozart. Right? I mean, the horrors pile up, too, but no one wants to die before the end of the story.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.”
― Constantin Brancusi