Hibernating

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book...or you take a trip...and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death), absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken."
Anaïs Nin

The study of type

Discourse on Method

Reading of all good books is like a conversation with the most qualified people in past centuries, who were their authors, and even a premeditated conversation, in which they reveal only their best thoughts...Almost the same thing as talking to men of other centuries is traveling. It’s good to know something of the habits of different peoples, so that our judge more fairly and not think that everything that is different from our customs is ridiculous and contrary to reason, make it sound like nothing seen.

However, when we spend too much time traveling, just making us strangers in our own land, and when we are too curious of what they were in past centuries, we are generally very ignorant of what takes place in the present.

Banksy

An amazing British graffiti artist. His work is truly the work of a genius; every single one of them.