Humanity

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J. D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

The true genius shudders at incompleteness—and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. — Edgar Allan Poe Solemnity is a mystery of the body, which serves to hide the defects of the mind. — La Rochefoucauld

Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created. It is created by increasing our sensitivity to the particular details of pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. — Richard Rorty

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. — Antonio Gramsci