Brigitte

“I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.”
― George Santayana