Is this

a version of me worth remembering?

Si monumentum requiris,

circumspice.

— Epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren, architect

The unknowable isn’t fact—

it’s something we decide.

– Ryan F. Mandelbaum, What We Will Never Know

And fire,

on fire to reach you.

– Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds

The error's

when a man presumes to state
That what he sees and God are separate.

– Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds

Biography

has brought a new terror to death.

— John Arbuthnot, at least according to Eddie Campbell in From Hell #11

Laws are like cobwebs,

for if any trifling or powerless thing falls into them, they hold it fast; but if a thing of any size falls into them it breaks the mesh and escapes.

— Anacharsis

Fools all,

who do not know how much better the half is than the whole, or what profit there is in mallow and asphodel. But it is another mistake to try and carve from life every passion and desire. To bear fruit, one must learn to weep and feast.

– Simon Sarris, The Sage's Garden

In this way,

God and I spare each other.

– Natasha Oladokun, I Asked God for the Moon

The superior artist

is the one who knows how to be influenced. 

— Clement Greenberg

The many

misadventures.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think,

is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

— HP Lovecraft

Death

is the goal of life.

— Schopenhauer

Love is fire.

Mind is smoke.

– from Attar's The Conference of the Birds, the Valley of the Beloved, translated by Ari Honarvar