strawbery cats

“What did I do, I, that knew his smile was my summer?”
― Mary Webb, Precious Bane

“Rather than working and becoming a socially responsible person, rather than listening to my wife's lectures, I wanted to be as idle as the idlest animal on earth. I wanted to cast off as much as possible the meaningless mask of humanity.
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
― Yi Sang, The Wings

“νυκτὸς ἐρημαίης ἀλαώπιδος...

Of night, the lonely, with her sightless eyes.”
― Empedocles, The Fragments of Empedocles

“How regrettable it is to blush when you reveal yourself to others just as you are, and when you flee the oppotunity to examine yourself!”
― Frederick the Great, Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings