We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.
~ Marcel Proust
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
― Ansel Adams
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La difficulté d’écrire l’anglais m’est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l’on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!
~ Charles Dickens
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
~ Albert Camus
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
~ John Steinbeck
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Death is Nature’s remedy for all things, and why not Legislation’s?
~ Charles Dickens
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
~ John Steinbeck
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
~ Charles Dickens
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We must scrunch or be scrunched.
~ Charles Dickens
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