Vanessa

“When man becomes fully conscious of his powers, his role, his destiny, he is an artist and he ceases his struggle with reality.”
― Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

“Life has to be given a meaning, because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
― Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

“Frankly, if there ever was a time when I was really happy, it wasn't during those first intoxicating moments of my success, but long before that, when I hadn't yet read or shown my manuscript to anyone -- during those long nights of ecstatic hopes and dreams and passionate love of my work, when I had grown attached to my vision, to the characters I had created myself, as though they were my own offspring, as though they really existed -- and I loved, rejoiced and grieved over them, at times even shedding quite genuine tears over my guileless hero.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

“TV can make me ill in five minutes, but I can look at an animal for hours and find nothing but grace and glory, life as it should be.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats