Bente

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You have to be so genuinely uncategorizable that the normal terms of identity don't even apply to you ... Like Judy here: we never see him with anyone, we don't know what race he is, we don't know anything about him. Post-sexual, post-racial, post-identity, post-past ... The Post-man. Jude the Postman.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“[...] and what is loving other than being conscious of an object as lovable?”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
― Oscar WIlde