Kodanda Rama

“The fruit of solitude is originality, something daringly and disconcertingly beautiful, the poetic creation. But the fruit of solitude can also be the perverse, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

“To deny the full humanity of others is to deny it within ourselves.”
― Clint Smith, Counting Descent

“...nearly everything great owes its existence to “despites”: despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

“Of course, when people have been robbed of everything, like you and me, they seek salvation from other-worldly powers!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita