marie mariami

“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

“We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.sm”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Everything will pass. The wise Man knows this from the start, and has no regrets.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn’t care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This