Miriam

“He had often thought of his loneliness, for example, as a condition which testified to his superiority. But people who were not superior were, nevertheless, extremely lonely—and unable to break out of their solitude precisely because they had no equipment with which to enter it. His own loneliness, magnified so many million times, made the night air colder. He remembered to what excesses, into what traps and nightmares, his loneliness had driven him; and he wondered where such a violent emptiness might drive an entire city.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“Liberdade é pouco. O que eu desejo ainda não tem nome.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“The ultimate expression of law is not order - it's prison.”
― George Jackson, Blood in My Eye

“The best ideas outrun me. That’s why I write.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays