When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
Charles Macaulay
The secret history
the gallery of great battles; versailles, paris
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
—W.E.B. Du Bois The Soul of Black Folk
shoutout to my favorite coping mechanism, isolation
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
Vincent van Gogh
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.“
– Oscar Wilde