"Travel Is Very Useful, It Exercises The Imagination. All The Rest Is Disappointment And Fatigue. Our

"Travel is very useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

(Artwork by Emile Friant.)

It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It’s a novel, simply a fictitious narrative. Littré* says so, and he's never wrong.

(Artwork by Róbert Béreny.)

And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just need to close your eyes.

(Artwork by Róbert Béreny.)

It's on the other side of life.

(Artwork by Ehsan Safavie.)

_Quote by French author Ferdinand Louis Céline from Journey To The End Of The Night_

"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."

_A Happy Death, Albert Camus_

"When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears."

_A Happy Death, Albert Camus._

(Artworks by Clive Smith.)

If their presence does not heal you or support you, then their absence will neither hurt you, nor drag you down.

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac

You, I and Us:

You mistake my mouth for a

Trap or a reeking graveyard,

And I take take yours for a

Phenomenon,

And a pleasant flowerbed.

You see in me what you escape in

Yourself,

And I see in you what I want in

Myself.

There's a you in I

And there's an I in you,

But what we need is to work on Us.

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac

"The true mind can weather all the lies and allusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void but always yields to purifying light."

_The Lion Turtle, Avatar: The Last Airbender_

"Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished." And so begins the greatest stories of my teenage years. If grown-ups have the epic trilogy of Lord of The Rings, the kids before them had 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Three seasons, 20/22 episodes each, equally exciting, great characters and by great I mean lost, complex, twisted and relatable. The plot is well written, the episodes are well-wrought to each other that they unfold in a way which mesmerized me as a kid and still do (as an adult). It has a goofy humour and salty sarcasm which entertains and appeals to children and adults equally. The animation is brilliant and likeable, the music is AWESOME... And of course there are dark episode, dark characters, and some themes with dark undertones which are undertaken and portrayed in the best of ways. The show is one of the most influential stories I watched in my teenage years. So I decided to rewatch and revisit certain shows and movies I watched as a child and as an adolescent (let's call it a 2022 resolution). And having started with Avatar:The Last Airbender is thy best decision of January. Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, Zuko, Uncle Iroh, Azula... These are characters that have had a lasting impression on me, their intertwining journeys of self-exploration, of self-worth and of enlightenment, plus the their descent to madness, to doubt, to hatred, to prejudice... Together they voice important messages, subjects and themes for their audience to learn, unlearn and relearn. Have you seen the show? If not, consider it. Trust me.

Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf 🙏.

"What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one."

_Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse_

Virginia Woolf, the writer who took refuge, took resort, took triumph, took life, and took vengence on life with Language. I always recommend her to friends and on social media. She was indeed a troubled woman, that only made her who she is. She wore her sufferings like her best attire. She lived her life but she saw through life in ways that few other writers could. She spoke for many things, she promoted many things, she aspired many things but what she does best is the art of reflection. She conjures up meaning out of nowhere, she pours life into inanimate, intangible things and defeats the ways of life by which it makes a man feels less, feels unimportant, or lost. Her human eye was indeed a beholder of many beauties and her mind a herald of many meanings. #readmorevirginiawoolf