Ana

“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.”
― Michel Foucault

“They couldn't have dropped the bomb for all the Galaxy. If they could have, they
would have been large-primate themselves in their manner of thinking, and there are worse things than merely the end of
everything.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”
― Mary Oliver

“Everything can change in Petersburg except its weather. And its light. It's the northern light, pale and diffused, one in which both memory and eye operate with unusual sharpness. In this light, and thanks to the directness and length of the streets, a walker's thoughts travel farther than his destination...”
― Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One: Selected Essays