Joni Tuomialho

“Moment of adorable silence. Men fall silent. But the song of the world rises and I, a prisoner chained deep in the cave, am filled with delight before I have time to desire. Eternity is here and I was hoping for it. Now I can speak. I do not know what I could wish for rather than this continued presence of self with self. What I want now is not happiness but awareness. One thinks one has cut oneself off from the world, but it is enough to see an olive tree upright in the golden dust, or beaches glistening in the morning sun, to feel this separation melt away. Thus with me. I become aware of the possibilities for which I am responsible. Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Aloitin urani kysymyksestä voiko ihminen koskaan tietää, sataako hänen päällensä huomenna paskaa. Ongelma vaivaa minua yhä, ja uhraan sen pohtimiseen päivittäin joitakin käsinpoimittuja minuutteja.”
― Antti Salminen, Lomonosovin moottori

“But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.”
― Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland