Fifteen minutes later, Ryukhin was sitting in complete solitude; leaning over a dish of fish snacks, drinking vodka glass after glass, understanding himself better with each moment, and realizing that in his entire life, not a single thing remained that could be corrected.

The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov

When four songs from a freshly emptied downloads folder turn into the four best songs you can listen to back-to-back, and when the film Eight Hateful, where the whole story takes place in a cabin in the mountains, becomes the best movie you’ve seen recently, you realize life needs to be simplified again. My body and mind crave simplicity. Every unnecessary thought or thing must be removed; only the simplest things should remain. Leisure should be reduced to standing by a half-open window at midnight and watching the outside world.