Szingy Elegance: I've come to believe that a person's beauty begins somewhere in their soul. Perhaps that's why it's so timeless - and often deceiving.
We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Szingy Gallery)
The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future. - Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion