Alis

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night

“We not only learn, but we also learn to gradually change our conceptual framework and to adapt it to what we learn.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness
And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,
And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world.”
― Czesław Miłosz, The Separate Notebooks

“I just want to live simply and pay attention to what's happening each day.”
― Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night