Kiara

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“Through the years I’ve called you in and out of my orbit
You, in your madness
the satellite that’s constellating my World
mimicking the inner chaos that i’ve disowned
a mirror to my past life retribution
a reflection of my sadness
If i’m going to keep on living the way that i’m living
i can’t do it without you.
My feet aren’t on the ground
i need your body to stand on
your name to define me
on top of being a woman
i am scared
and
ethereal
and
there are seven worlds in my eyes
i’m accessing all of them at once”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment