devaneios suspensos

“Of course we can be changed by reading or listening to something that moves us deeply, that makes us see ourselves or the world in a different light … We are changed because we now understand something that we did not understand before.”

“Winter-born even in the beaded summer minutes,”

“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads, they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”

“I was in such a bad temper and such continuous anxiety, that I felt I needed to shut myself into myself, and bear my woe in solitude.”