We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.
John Milton (1608-1674), Paradise Lost
In books we never find anything but ourselves.
Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure,
and we say the author is a genius.
— Thomas Mann
