“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence…”— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”— Dante Alighieri

Bust of the nymph/naiad Herkyna in the Herkyna River in Greece
“Looking up, she swallowed him whole.”