a dreamer's wisdom - us and the world

I am passionate about everything in my life - first and foremost,
passionate about ideas.  And that's a dangerous person to be in this
society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a
fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society.  
- Bell Hooks

Franz Kafka noted that happiness for him consisted in raising the
world "into the pure, the truth, and the immutable."

Ordinary life does not interest me.  I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist;
I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite
dimension.  - Anais Nin

Mary L. Macomber, "Night and Her Daughter Sleep" (detail)

the well written - franz kafka

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.

- Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks

By me

on reading - franz kafka

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

- Franz Kafka, The Trial

By Maria