Kate

“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

“Wine is bottled poetry.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson