Zoe

“The substitute gratifications, such as art offers, are illusions in contrast to reality, but none the less satisfying to the mind on that account, thanks to the place which phantasy has reserved for herself in mental life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“one must pay back from this secret deposit of exquisite moments, she thought,”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Doesn’t it make you melancholy—looking at the stars?”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn To Intellectual Beauty