Time Will Tell, I Suppose, Or At Least, These Pages Will.

~ Joseph Campbell

rainy day in paris // 2019

medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life.

but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

-John Keating; Dead Poets Society

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.“

– Oscar Wilde

"It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."

"The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all."

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

“And you are my sacred book. My poem.” 

 – Umar Timol, from “Blood”, translated by Susan Wicks

“I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen.”

- Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding