A PORTRAIT A DAY KEEPS MYSELF SANE

“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional … My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.”
― Georges Simenon

You’re the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

Italo Calvino

“Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It’s nice to learn fast but it’s
 nice to take your time too.

 Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don’t.”

 —James Agee

“We rose up betimes, for sleep weighs lightly on the hopeful as well as on the anxious.”

—Johann Wyss

“For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.”

— Juvenal

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“Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make.”

— Bram Stoker

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“I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.”

— Astrid Lindgren

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

— Alan Watts