He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about…like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via tesslundgardh)
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.
— Pablo Neruda, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 1971 (via clavicola)
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a persons conscience.
— Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (via tesslundgardh)
You are beautiful; but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
— Congolese Proverb (via dynamicafrica)


