Temuulen

“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“…Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried reposeful
The single Rose…”
― T.S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays

“Vladimir Nabokov, in his Lectures on Literature (1980), saw it all: Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “wolf, wolf” and there was no wolf behind him.”
― Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

“Философия – есть способность отдать самому себе отчет в очевидности.”
― Merab Mamardashvili, Психологическая топология пути: М. Пруст "В поисках утраченного времени