Russell

“O seasons, O castles,
What soul is without flaws?
All its lore is known to me,
Felicity, it enchants us all.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell & Other Poems

“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“My usual self is a very unusual self.”
― Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey

“I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,
The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,
The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily,
And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see
The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass;
And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,
I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,
And build me stately palaces by candlelight.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal