Eris Kalisty

“For me, this was an example of how unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the context, the economy of someone’s life.”
― Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life

“That those who entered such nursing homes needed meaning—a life, an identity, dignity, self-respect, a degree of autonomy—was ignored or bypassed;”
― Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life

“The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter...The main thing is to keep people from bothering you...The rest is eyewash...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Death on the Installment Plan

“Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.”
― George Santayana, History of Philosophy: five classic books in a single file