Sukaina

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Consistent or inconsistent, no one is exempt from the mystery of the self. Probably we are all inconsistent. Te world is just too complicated for a person to be able to afford the luxury of reconciling all of his beliefs with each other. Tension and confusion are important in a world where many decisions must be made quickly. Miguel de Unamuno once said, 'If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.' I would say that we all are in the same boast as the Zen master who, after contradicting himself several times in a row, said to the confused Doko, 'I cannot understand myself.”
― Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“Now what is "music"–a sequence of vibrations in the air, or a succession of emotional responses in the brain?”
― HOFSTADTER DOUGLAS, GODEL, ESCHER Y BACH

“It sometimes feels as if I had shouted a deeply cherished message out into an empty chasm and nobody heard me.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid