Every shelf in our library is like a little pocket universe, an interesting, almost voyeuristic glimpse into someone's heart and mind. And if you walk around our library, quite often you end up standing in front of a shelf thinking to yourself, "I think I know this person," even though, strangely, you've never met this person in your entire life.
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We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. And what we are is largely what we have consented to become, through the daily, unremarked choices that accumulate into a character — and finally a fate.
Anaïs Nin — Seduction of the Minotaur
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
Franz Kafka — Letter to Oskar Pollak
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. And yet the self is not a fixed thing to be discovered, but a possibility to be created — which is perhaps why so many prefer the despair.
Søren Kierkegaard — The Sickness Unto Death