nate

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“She [nature] is the sole artist, creating extreme contrast out of the simplest material, the greatest perfection seemingly without effort, the most definite clarity always veiled with a touch of softness. Each of her works has its own being, each of her phenomena its separate idea, and yet all create a single whole.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants

“Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning ‘love’ in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. Presently I came to realize that my conviction—the conviction that I could never be loved-was itself the basic state of human existence”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about”
― John von Neumann