Tabes

“Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology of such an individual. And yet the only thing about him that has remained is my memory of his ugliness.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“Now are the woods all black,
But still the sky is blue.”
― Marcel Proust , Swann’s Way

“Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights