Chrysanthi

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

“Oh, island, I adore you, but I hate you, too! You’re a prison smothered in flowers, I’ve never been more eager to leave a place behind. I can’t stand this enchantment anymore, I can’t stand being bewitched like this- when I look at you, my gaze turns to nothing but a mirror of light, I’ll stare at you hypnotized for ages, and when I stop I’ll feel you, and when I stop feeling you I’ll die. I have such a craving for ugliness and filth, for cities, streets, cars, I want to wake up in the morning and wait at a red light to cross the street.”
― Margarita Karapanou, The Sleepwalker

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”
― Lev Shestov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nietzsche: The Good in the Teaching of Tolstoy and Nietzsche: Philosophy and Preaching, & Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Philosophy of Tragedy