"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated By Constance Garnett)

you think god wants you to meal prep?

April 5, 1915 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

All mythological ideas are essentially real, and far older than any philosophy. Like our knowledge of physical nature, they were originally perceptions and experiences. In so far as such ideas are universal, they are symptoms or characteristics or normal exponents of psychic life, which are naturally present and need no proof of their truth.

— Carl Jung

Sunken alcove in the garden

December 16, 1930 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

She wanted to scream, but a person who is alone—alone in the absolute sense of the word—does not scream out her despair; it is useless. Deserts do not hear. But she can do things with her hands which even a desert must notice. She can tear at the sand until the desert bleeds.

– Stig Dagerman, from “Men of Character,” The Games of Night (Quartet, 1986)

Adam Zagajewski, “A Flame,” trans. Renata Gorczynski and Clare Cavanaugh

I’m so happy to be alive