Look at your body:

A painted puppet, a poor toy
Of jointed parts ready to collapse,
A diseased and suffering thing
With a head full of false imaginings.

He That Dies

Pays All Debts ~

Art by David Van Gough

 

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion

to crave for happiness

in this life.

— Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

Art by Al Margen

From the stars we came

and to the stars we return,

from now until the end of time.

So tell me where shall I go?

To the left,

where nothing's right?

Or to the right,

where nothing's left?

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“Is not this world an illusion?

And yet it fools everybody.”

(Angela Carter)

(art by Santiago Ramos)

“I have had to experience

so much stupidity,

so many vices,

so much error,

so much nausea,

disillusionment and sorrow,

just in order

to become a child again and begin anew.

I had to experience despair,

I had to sink

to the greatest mental depths,

to thoughts of suicide,

in order to experience grace.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha