Currently reading: Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari ― “Humans are rarely satisfied with what they already have. The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.”
“The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
“Soon he sank into deep thought, or more accurately speaking, into a complete blankness of the mind; he walked along not observing what was about him and not caring to observe it.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
the beginning of february in my bullet journal + one of my favourite books at the moment
my inter-semester break is over and i already feel so overwhelmed even though i haven’t even got a lot to do yet