"Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Lonely Quotes #Home Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Incommensurables cannot be compared.”
“Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.”
“This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.”
“Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.”
“Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.”
“When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation - like a veiled girl. Generally the eye and the imagination are more readily drawn by nebulous distance than by what is perfectly plain for all to see”
“A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.”
“Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.”

Source : Jessica Helfand (2001). “Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture”, p.137, Princeton Architectural Press

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