Dalliant Thoughts

“How could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The mountains of truth you will never climb in vain.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

“You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.” - Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’… but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.” - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognized for what it is. Sorrow is very real, and loss feels very final to us. Life on earth is difficult and grave, and marvelous. Our experience is fragmentary. Its parts don’t add up. They don’t even belong in the same calculation. Sometimes it is hard to believe they are all parts of one thing.” - Marilynne Robinson, Lila