wisdom and beauty

“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

““A room without books is like a body without a soul.””

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”

“I fell asleep in a river, I woke in a river, of my mysterious failure to die I can tell you nothing,”

“I was softened to the point of ineffable decay, I was unendingly dissolving into happiness after happiness in my own ashes.”

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”