"What Makes The Desert Beautiful,' Said The Little Prince, 'is That Somewhere It Hides A Well..."

"What makes the desert beautiful,' said the Little Prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince-

(Artwork Loneliness by Salvador Dali.)

"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.)

"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).

"And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night-

(Artwork The Smoker by Christopher Thomson.)

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis-

(Artwork by Mimmo Paladino)

"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).