Each individual thing is only a sketch of the specific perfection planned for its kind. Why should we ask it to be anything more?
— Thomas Merton
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What is great in the human is that it is a bridge and not a goal: what can be loved in the human is that it is a going-over and going-under.
— Nietzsche
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
– Kafka
Notes from a Room