otto

“Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Vivir es una tarea urgente”
― Vanessa Montfort, Mujeres que compran flores

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You're up early," I said.
"I always rise early. The morning is the best time for me to work."
I glanced at the books. "What are you going, Greek?"
Henry set the cup back into its saucer. "A translation of Paradise Lost."
"Into what language?"
"Latin," he said solemly.
"Hmm," I said. "Why?"
"I am interested to see what I will wind up with. Milton to my way of thinking is our greatest English poet, greater than Shakespeare, but I think in some ways it was unfortunate that he chose to write in English — of course, he wrote a not inconsiderable amount of poetry in Latin, but that was early, in his student days; what I'm referring to is the later work. In Paradise Lost he pushes English to its very limits but I think no language without noun cases could possible support the structural order he attempts to impose. He laid his cigarette back into the ashtray.”
― Donna Tartt