Mattaddis

“You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
― Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō