J Raines

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.”
― Annie Dillard