[violaine]

and the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
--anais Nin



all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
--arthur Schopenhauer