"Two People In Love, Alone, Isolated From The World, That's Very Beautiful. But What Would They Nourish

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.'

'They could be silent.' 'Like those two, at the next table?'

Jean Marc laughed. 'Oh, no, no love can survive muteness.

-Milan Kundera, Identity-

(Artwork Alone Together by Malcolm Liepke).

"The tremendous world

I have in my head. But how to free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it."

-Book: The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923-

(Artwork by Miles Johnston.)

"I long for you;

I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena-

(Artwork by IG @mohabfathy3)

"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian: A Story of Emil Sinclair.-

(Artwork The Great Century by René Magritte)

"The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair.-

( Artwork Midnight Overthinking by Miles Johnston).

"I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair.-

(Artwork by Eliran Kantor.)