Masha

“Nostalgia was diagnosed at a time when art and science had not yet entirely severed their umbilical ties and when the mind and body—internal and external well-being—were treated together. This was a diagnosis of a poetic science—and we should not smile condescendingly on the diligent Swiss doctors. Our progeny well might poeticize depression and see it as a metaphor for a global atmospheric condition, immune to treatment with Prozac.”
― Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia

“truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.”
― Herman Melville

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”
― Terence McKenna

“Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe