Maelle

“Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. Translated into words, it’s a cliché, but at the time I felt it not as words but as that knot of air inside me. Death exists—in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a billiard table—and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Yet since these triumphs actually result from mass cooperation, it is far less clear why they should make us revere individual humans.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“This is why we can still find ourselves between the pages of the Bible, in the writings of Confucius or within the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides. These classics were created by humans just like us, hence we feel that they talk about us. In modern theatre productions, Oedipus, Hamlet and Othello may wear jeans and T-shirts and have Facebook accounts, but their emotional conflicts are the same as in the original play.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“A golden cage is still a cage.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe