Barbara

“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“That Beethoven was capable of producing the ultimate musical definition of heroism in this context is itself extraordinary, for he was able to evoke a dream of heroism that neither he nor his native Germany nor his adopted Vienna could express in reality. Perhaps we can only measure the heroism of the Eroica by the depth of fear and uncertainty from with it emerged.”
― Maynard Solomon

“He looked around at the perfectly white world, felt the wet kisses of the snowflakes, pondered hidden meanings in the pale yellow streetlights that shone in a world so whitely asleep.

"Beautiful," he whispered.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers