Maia

“It was in his nature to be able to possess an idea and not know how to think it: obfuscated, persistent, tossing seeds...”
― Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City

“When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when ‘the sea flows in our veins… and the stars are our jewels’, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

“Maktub’ in Arabic means ‘it is written.’ Write a narrative in which the speaker starts to understand that events, as they happen in his/her life, can be seen not as surprises but as an uncovering- the systematic revelation of fate.”
― Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia

“What is last in the order of analysis seems to be first in the order of becoming”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics