Esra Efe Laborde

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet