Dana

“She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.”
― Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.

The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside.

In such a way that they have the whole world as background.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.”
― William Hazlitt, Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims

“Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle