Joanna

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.”
― Winfried Georg Sebald, Vertigo

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”
― Fernando Pessoa