Francis Norton

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.”
― C.G. Jung, Aion

“Septimus. When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore.

Thomasina. Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?”
― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic