“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
― Player Piano
― Player Piano
“We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
“salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
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