Carin

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

Your hands on my back,

She lives in my head rent free.

“Every word has consequences, every silence too.”

“The blood on my teeth begins to taste like a poem, like religion, like the way you look at me.”

“We often have to explain to young people why study is useful. It’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. Nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. And so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. It introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. It allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. It creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. And all this is very beautiful.”