Mirari

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Francis Bacon

“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying.”
― Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust

“My mother is a fish.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Para trascender el cuerpo, hay que pasar por un período de desenfreno físico y blasfemia verbal, sobre el principio de que sólo cuando la moral ha sido deliberadamente pisoteada, es capaz el individuo de una transformación radical: entrar en un estado de gracia que deja atrás todas las categorías morales.”
― Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays