5 Quotes by Eva Brann

Beauty, like an animal, doesn’t always behave.

Tyranny and imagination are archenemies.

You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.” – Eva Brann.

We save up the events of our days to tell our friends, feeling that until our affairs have been told they haven’t quite happened: Thus do our friends confirm our lives.

What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one’s usually of two minds: 1. You’re ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don’t know the half of it.