“Judging whether life is or not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”

— Albert Camus

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody but yourself.”

— E.E. Cummings

“We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.”

— Roland Barthes

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”

— Joseph Campbell

“… and a deep and weary disdain for all those who work for mankind, for all those who fight for their country and give their lives so that civilization may continue…… a disdain full of disgust for those who don’t realize that the only reality is each man’s soul, and that everything else – the exterior world and other people –is but an unaesthetic nightmare, like the result, in dreams, of a mental indigestion. My aversion to effort becomes an almost writhing horror before all forms of violent effort. War, energetic and productive labour, helping others – all this strikes me as the product of an impertinence.. Everything useful and external tastes frivolous and trivial in the light of my soul’s supreme reality and next to the pure sovereign splendour of my more original and frequent dreams. These, for me, are more real.”

— Fernando Pessoa