Aziz Odilon

“What is it then? Why do you hesitate?
Why do you relish living like a coward?
Why cannot you be bold and keen to start?”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy by Dante

“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
― Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology

“Nobody will enter into your hopes: dreams, desires, projects are weak and solitary abstractions that nobody will formulate with us. In his aspirations toward the future or beyond it, man is unhappy because he is alone, all that he sees, all that he is, makes him suffer, except for what he loves. If I ahd a son to direct, I would tell him: 'Leave, go alone in the midst of men since you must become one of them. The individual soars only in liberty.”
― Odilon Redon, To Myself: Notes on Life, Art and Artists

“I was not yet in love, but I was in love with love itself; and I sought for something to love, since I loved nothing.”
― St. Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Premium Edition - Illustrated