Narges

“Melancholy, being a kind of vacatio, separation of soul from body, bestowed the gift of clairvoyance and premonition. In the classifications of the Middle Ages, melancholy was included among the seven forms of vacatio, along with sleep, fainting, and solitude. The state of vacatio is characterized by a labile link between soul and body which makes the soul more independent with regard to the sensible world and allows it to neglect its physical matrix in order, in some way, better to attend to its own business.”
― Ioan Petru Culianu, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance

“Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“آیا هیچ می‌دانید که اگر شما گیوتین را به جلو صحنه آورده‌اید
و آن را با این شادمانی و افتخار برافراشته و به آسمان رسانده‌اید
فقط برای این است که بریدن سر از همه کار آسان‌تر است
...و پروردن اندیشه در سر از همه کار دشوارتر”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Whales and Men