Esther

“And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I’ve traveled
That dark path to the world
Which comes down from this mountain
Just to see you
One last time.”
― Ono no Komachi, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

“The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and
gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden… What I
say today, and what I heard, exists and cries and howls beyond this garden, which is no more than a
symbol to me of the entire earth.”
― Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden