central to every calamity, every blessing.

It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary to live happily.

-Jules Renard

accessible but veiled

"It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in it's complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies - not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn't create but calls."

- Kafka, Tagebucher
- quoted in Roberto Calasso's astonishing 'K'