Yana

“I could see life as tragic or comic depending on my blood sugar level but always saw it as meaningless. I felt I was a tragedian locked in the body of a stand-up comic. A mute, inglorious Milton. But only if you meant Milton Berle.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“being a misanthropist has its saving grace—people can never disappoint you.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“In certain almost supernatural states of mind, the profundity of life is revealed in its entirety in the spectacle, common as it may be, that we have before our eyes. It becomes the symbol of it.”
― Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare

“...reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts”
― René Descartes, Discourse on Method