Good Bye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)

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

He literally laid down right in front of me, I am so blessed.

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. April 1929, featured in Selected Diaries

Banana Yoshimoto, from her novel titled "The Premonition," originally published in 2015

C.G. Jung, from Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East

Text ID: Man is free to decide whether "God" shall be a “spirit" or a natural phenomenon like the craving of a morphine addict, and hence whether "God" shall act as a beneficent or a destructive force.

The universe is flirting with you.

Are you noticing?

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book: Liber Novus

Text ID: He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in a desperate endeavor and a blind desire for the hollow things of the world. He becomes a fool through his endless desire, and forgets the way of his soul, never to find her again. He will run after all things, and will seize hold of them, but he will not find his soul, since he would find her only in himself.

Margarita Aliger on Anna Akhmatova, from a diary entry featured in Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova

I know you. I have felt you like a serpent crawling in my body.