jude

“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“But practically I know men and recognize them by their behavior, by the totality of their deeds, by the consequences caused in life by their presence.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Done Amid fear and suspicion,
with startled minds and frightened eyes,
we pine and scheme over what steps to take
to avoid the certain
danger that threatens us so horribly.
Yet we are wrong. This was not the danger in store;
the portents were false
(or we never heard them, or failed to construe them properly).
It’s some other disaster, precipitous, violent,
one we hadn’t imagined,
that suddenly takes us unawares, and –
there’s no time now – overcomes us.”
― Constantinos P. Cavafis, Selected Poems

“Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum