le.papillon.et.la.fleur

“In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we cling to them, being shadows” - Woolf

“When we try, especially in times of pain and crisis, to penetrate the mystery of another mind, we incline to picture it as being,not a shadowy mass of contradictions like our own, but a casket containing entities which are clear-cut and definite but hidden” -Murdoch