“Incense, With Its Sweetsmelling Perfume And High-ascending Smoke, Can Be Compared To A Sincere, Earnest

“She never forgot that day; it was so bright and golden and fair, so free from shadow and so lavish of blossom.”

― L. M. Montgomery, from “Anne of Green Gables.”

“I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself: I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, ‘Fuck, I can’t read two-thirds of these books.’ It overwhelms me with sadness.”

— David Bowie, 2002

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait tr. by Carlos Fuentes

[ID: There is nothing absolute / Everything changes, everything / moves, everything re- / volves - everything / flies and goes away.]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles (about December 1858)

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Humiliated and Insulted

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.”

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

—

Anton Chekhov (b. 29 January 1860)

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”