Fiona

“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“what stars, what thought and sadness up above, and what ignorance below.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe