“The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.” ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

Helene Schjerfbeck

“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?” ― Franz Kafka

Helene Schjerfbeck

„You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.“ Ash, Alien

Helene Schjerfbeck

One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee

Helene Schjerfbeck

A disaster like this leaves no mark on the earth. And people like that - they think it gives them a fresh start. Louise Glück

Helene Schjerfbeck

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. Yevgeny Zamyatin

Helene Schjerfbeck

The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Helene Schjerfbeck

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donne

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Sometimes a man or woman forces his despair on another person... outside, a summer evening, a whole world thrown away on the moon: groups of silver forms.” Louise Gluck, Love in Moonlight

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Certified Weirdo

“The devil lies right under our feet. Everyone thinks they’d recognise his appearance, even without a body.” Anne Sexton

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One characteristic of hell is its unreality, which might be thought to mitigate hell’s terrors but perhaps makes them all the worse. Jorge Luis Borges

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus, The Rebel

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot

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François Barraud

“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

François Barraud

Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard. H.P. Lovecraft

François Barraud

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. W.B. Yeats

François Barraud

It was a song, but not the song of any voice. Night and the spheres sang it, and it was old when space and Nyarlathotep and the Other Gods were born. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

François Barraud

„Sacrifice always means the renunciation of a valuable part of oneself, and through it the sacrificer escapes being devoured“. Carl Jung

François Barraud

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? Pablo Picasso

François Barraud

...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited. Hermann Hesse

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