Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, if gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

~    Thomas Mann (Death in Venice)

"You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world
But the darkness pulls in everything:
and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me.
I have faith in nights.
" 

Ich glaube an Nächte  

~

Rainer Maria Rilke

"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?"

~   Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays

"To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the center of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—such are a few of the slightest pleasures of those independent, passionate, impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define."

~   Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

i miss reading books...