Alexa Trasca

“I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”
― Goethe Wolfgang, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Din orice situatie exista o iesire”
― Lev Tolstoi, Anna Karenina

“Ce cantitate infinită de inutil calm conţinea în dimineaţa aceea oceanul, faţă de neliniştea şi de zbuciumul unui singur om...”
― Max Blecher, Inimi cicatrizate; Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată

“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then there must be the conception of what it can be and an absolute conscience as unchanging as the standard meter in Paris, to prevent faking. Then the writer must be intelligent and disinterested and above all he must survive. Try to get all these things in one person and have him come through all the influences that press on a writer. The hardest thing, because time is so short, is for him to survive and get his work done.”
― Ernest Hemingway