Martyna

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“His “s’s” in “something” and “this” were so sharp that it seemed his mouth was a nest of wasps.”
― Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky