Karmen

“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Deep, calm, siren-like, and magical.


-Two Poems to Hans Thomas on his Sixtieth Birthday,”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images

“Lord give me chastity and self control - but not yet.”
― St. Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine (Annotated Christianity theology in Middle Age and Reformation): 13 Christianity religious books from the Middle Age of the sinful and immoral life