Breathe

"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world."

"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

"Interest, interesse, means to be among and in the midst of things, or to be at the center of a thing and to stay with it. But today’s interest accepts as valid only what is interesting. and interesting is the sort of thing which can freely be regarded as indifferent the next moment. and be displaced by something else, which then concerns us just as little as what went before. Many people think that they are doing something a great favor by finding it interesting. The truth is that such an opinion has already relegated the interesting thing to the ranks of what is indifferent and soon boring."