Michelle

“Orito pictures the human mind as a loom that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche