Alexandria

“In a city you can be alone in a crowd and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind in its teeming multitudes.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“Language serves the process of mutual understanding… we are convinced that we know what we are talking about,
we are convinced that they understand us, we translate other languages into our own. All our endeavors boil down to this: we miss the meaning. For if we truly understand one another, speaker and listener, writer and reader, you and I, we would have to spit into each other’s mouths, entwining our tongues, mixing our spittle. You and I, editor, we speak different languages: yours is only human, whereas mine is both human and serpentine.”
― Dubravka Ugrešić, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

“Ideas do not belong to anyone. They fly around up there like angels.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons