Rela

“People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an electric current, that anyone that identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity