"And Cain Says, “When You Split Me And My Brother In The Womb, You Did Not Divide Us Evenly. He Got

La pureté est absolument invulnérable en tant que pureté (...). Mais elle est éminemment vulnérable en ce sens que toute atteinte du mal la fait souffrir (S. Weil, Pesanteur, 1943, p. 79).

“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”

— Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “The Fig,”

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

acosmist

(noun)

one who believes that nothing exists.

Sylvia Plath

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka 

Constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want. - Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German historian and philosopher

Naomi Shihab Nye, from You & Yours: Poems; "Stay," originally published in 2005