Ghost Reader

“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”
― Thomas Bernhard

“Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith