Vivify M

“if my body wasn’t faltering, I would have asked, “Do you feel nothing else? Are the compartments of your heart not roomy enough?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count

“We feel guilty for all that we have not yet read, but overlook how much better read we already are than Augustine or Dante, thereby ignoring that our problem lies squarely with our manner of absorption rather than with the extent of our consumption.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man. —Bertrand Russell”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

“What is the point of literature? I think that the person who asks that question will not find my answer convincing anyway”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart