Moussa

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot