raised right men

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

"Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play… I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."