Anna

“Combustion is the hidden principle behind every artefact we create. The making of a fish-hook, manufacture of a china cup, or production of a television programme, all depend on the same process of combustion. Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

“If there’s anything I look down on, it’s a man in a blue outfit. Black or gray, or brown, even. Blue just makes me laugh.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“this sense: the act of thinking, looking, and talking about what you see changes what you know and see. After this labor, now you can, finally, see.”
― Alva Noë, The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

“The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up