‘I can listen no longer in silence.’ Jane Austen, Persuation, 1817 Daniël Murtagh

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty … But I am too busy thinking about myself.’ Edith Sitwell - quoted in The Observer, April 30 1950 Norman Parkinson

Perhaps it is better to suffer And know the truth than To be happy in a delusion. Fyodor Dostoevsky I would rather keep my illusions, For they are often kinder Than the truth. Franz Kafka

Acceptance is when the ache No longer asks for answers.

🌿And autumn awaited winter And the night awaited the day And love awaited love

🌿The sickle of the air is sparkling the head tilts into the gears of the wind The wolves race through the wool of the evening.

"True happiness is enjoying the present, without anxiously depending on the future."

. “Every caress every trust survives.” ― Paul Éluard . 🖤

When the world turns off, the inner dialogue turns on. This refuge, where only my music and my being exist, is non-negotiable and unquestionable...

Non ho mai chiuso porte… chi è rimasto sapeva già dove stava entrando… #BuongiornoATutti caffè ☕️

“I think that all the good things life has to offer are not seen, but are discovered by digging beneath the surface of the evident.” "Days Without You", Elvira Sastre

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Paul Evans art.

‘Color directly influences the soul …’ Wassily Kandinsky - Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911 Mood Lines - 1927

Many hate solitude because they cannot bear themselves

The continuous breathing of the world is what we hear and call silence.

“No, I don't fear loneliness. People are infinitely more dangerous.”

"He who does not love is always right: it is the only thing he has". ~Antonio Gala

"Watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Watch your words, for they become your actions. Watch your actions, for they become your habits. Watch your habits, for they become your destiny".

« I have never understood the distinction that is made between the comic and the tragic. The comic being the intuition of the absurd, it seems to me more despairing than the tragic ».