Quotations

"Solitude is not an absence. It is a form of fullness. Almost no one understands this. They call it emptiness, oblivion, cold, collapse, even pathology. And it is simply a language, the most ancient of all. Spoken by sages, eccentrics, exiles, writers and women who go out in the morning with a book under their arm instead of a companion." Sofia Proneikos, "Caryatid - The Vital Threads of The Soul"

"Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure;books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us,consult with us,and join with us in a living and intense intimacy." Petrarch

"Ah, the eternal burden of the intellectual - to pour all this knowledge into his brain through the three-millimetre aperture of the iris." Irvin D. Yalom, "When Nietzsche Wept"

"An intelligent man understands ideas. An intellectual believes in them." Alberto Moravia

"From the unreal lead me to the real, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to immortality." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1:3:18