Oorphic-elizza - A La Folie; To Insanity

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚗 𝙻𝚎 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚞, 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟽𝟸)

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” - Leonardo da Vinci

Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

-René Descartes

"Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown."

-Erich Fromm; To Have or to Be?

"Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done” ―Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange