Gennady Aygi, Tr. By Peter France, From “The People Are A Temple.”

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka 

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats Love Letter To Fanny Brawne – 13 October 1819

“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022