Eilidh Harris

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”
― Clifford Geertz

“He was much changed and grown even thinner since Pyotr Ivanovich had last seen him, but, as is always the case with the dead, his face was handsomer and above all more dignified than than when he was alive.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando