Alexandra

“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

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
― Albert Camus

“Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot