Lorraine

“You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don’t know.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous.”
― Franz Kafka

“I believe that the infinite and mysterious charm that lies in the contemplation of a moving vessel is caused, firstly, by the regularity and symmetry that are among the primordial needs of the human spirit, to the same degree as complication and harmony - and, secondly, by the multiplication and generation of all the imaginary curves and figures produced in space by the real elements of the object. The poetic idea released by this operation of movement in the lines is the hypothesis of a being that is vast, immense, complicated but eurythmic, an animal full of genius, suffering and sighing all the sighs and all the human ambitions.”
― Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare: Intimate diaries with 30 illustrations