Leena

“The scapegoat is a central figure in human life. A community that feels threatened identifies groups or individuals responsible for the crisis, casts them out by killing or expelling them, comes together healed and renewed, and attempts to forestall the next crisis by restaging the original event in ritual or else by wondering how it could have punished an innocent lamb (and trying to identify groups or individuals responsible for the delusion).”
― Yuri Slezkine, The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“In this world
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers”
― Kobayashi Issa