Alex Shah

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound