What do palm trees look like when they’re allowed to grow naturally and not pruned?

My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all.

| Clarice Lispector, The Disasters of Sofia

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.”
― Simone Weil

“The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.”

There is no inside except as a folding of the outside; the mirror cracks, I am an other, and I always was.

– Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie