Dena

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.”
― Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot