Ever Valentine

“He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.”
― Milan Kundera, Encounter

“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems