Glass Sculpture By Hennie Elzinga.
“The bowl of wild roses. The English knives and forks. Greek cigarettes. The battered and sea-stained notebook in which I rough out my poems.”
— Lawrence Durrel, from Prospero’s Cell: and Reflections on a Marine Venus (1945)
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
— Carl Jung
She wanted to scream, but a person who is alone—alone in the absolute sense of the word—does not scream out her despair; it is useless. Deserts do not hear. But she can do things with her hands which even a desert must notice. She can tear at the sand until the desert bleeds.
– Stig Dagerman, from “Men of Character,” The Games of Night (Quartet, 1986)
seeking, yearning, reaching hands
C.G. Jung, from Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East
Text ID: Man is free to decide whether "God" shall be a “spirit" or a natural phenomenon like the craving of a morphine addict, and hence whether "God" shall act as a beneficent or a destructive force.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends
Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem
Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet
Text ID: By thinking so much, I became echo and abyss. By delving within, I made myself into many.
‘Ghost in the Shell’ 1995, recreated in haunting still life