Endurance = the ability to withstand hardship or adversity.
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
— Mark Z. Danielewski
Art by Andrey Shishkin.
Veil = a piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face.
“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand — but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.” – from Zadie Smith‘s 10 Rules of Writing
Art by Vincent van Gogh.
Porous = having minute interstices through which liquid or air may pass.
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Art by Vladimir Kush.
Eccentric = unconventional and slightly strange.
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell
Art by Michael Cheval.
Lurk = to wait or move in a secret way so that you cannot be seen.
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
–Ray Bradbury
Art by Anton Pieck.
Hermit = a person living in solitude, recluse.
“Consciousness is a born hermit.” – George Santayana
Art by Tim White.
“A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now that’s a question.” – Neil Gaiman
Yes, they do. When you’re in love.
Art by Warwick Goble.
Foretell = to tell beforehand, to predict.
“The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth’s gods.”
– H. P. Lovecraft
Art by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
–Friedrich Nietzsche
Art by Kinuko Y Craft.
Stitch = one in-and-out movement of a threaded needle in sewing, embroidering, or suturing.
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury
Art by Jacek Yerka.
