Paula

“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”
― Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell