Bea Kwan

“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”
― Holderlin

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden