Planet Literature

Conversations with Paula 10

„Doesn’t your eternal growth lead you to live in a permanent provisional arrangement? And aren’t all the things that your growth produces actually a shackle for you? Wouldn’t you be happier without them?“

Picture: Arnold Böcklin (1827 – 1901): The
War (1896); Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister (Dresden
State Art Collections, New Masters Gallery)