Making it clear that our bad side has its good side... It's just that our good side, however small it may be, stands out much more and its unpredictability generates enchantment...
Prestige without merit obtains consideration without esteem.
Sébastien-Roch Chamfort
And he knows in some obscure way that his lank hair belongs to a shipwrecked man. Because you know – you know you made a mistake. A danger as old as human beings.
Clarice Lispector
There are things that can never be explained in words.
José Saramago
Even everything that is covered up. - Ecclesiastes 12:14
Ecclesiastes
Every healthy man can go two days without eating - without poetry, ever.
Charles Baudelaire