Cattywampus

I miss the promise of autumn.
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"It seemed his whole vocation was to look into himself, to analyse what was going on inside him, as if the very accumulation of details could convince him he was really alive."
-Roberto Arlt, The Seven Madmen
"O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musing and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries."
- Julian Jaynes
"One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather."
- Paul Valery
"We... speak far too much, far too easily, making common what was private, arresting into the cliches of false certitude that which was provisional, personal, and therefore alive on the shadow-side of speech."
- George Steiner
"I dreamed I was alive. That surprised me. I was alive. But I woke myself up." - Philippe Soupault
"One can live only so long as one is intoxicated, drunk with life; but when one grows sober one cannot fail to see that it is all a stupid cheat."
- Tolstoy