Ranas

“we protect the truth principally by telling the truth about ourselves.”
― Elena Ferrante, Incidental Inventions

“Art,” said Picasso, “is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”
― John Kay, Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

“The difference essentially between a book and a friend lies not in their greater or lesser wisdom, but in the manner in which we communicate with them, reading being the reverse of conversation, consisting as it does for each one of us in receiving the communication of another’s thought while still being on our own, that is, continuing to enjoy the intellectual sway which we have in solitude and which conversation dispels instantly, and continuing to be open to inspiration, with our minds still at work hard and fruitfully on themselves.”
― Marcel Proust, Days of Reading

“Our society produces schizos the same way it produces Prell Shampoo and Ford cars, the only difference being that the schizos are not salable.”
― Giles Deleuze, Felix Guattari