February 2012
102 posts
“January 20. A little calmer. How needed it was. No sooner is it a little calmer...”
– Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923
When it looks as if you had made up your mind finally to stay at home for the evening, when you have put on your house jacket and sat down after supper with a light on the table to the piece of work or the game that usually precedes your going to bed, when the weather outside is unpleasant so that staying indoors seems natural, and when you have already been sitting quietly at the table for so...
He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
- Francis Bacon
