Doriane

“Unless it can be proven to me—to me as I am now, today, with my heart and my beard, and my putrefaction—that, in the infinite run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl child named Dolores Haze had been deprived of her childhood by a maniac, unless this can be proven (and if it can, life is a joke) I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“The nosferatu do not die like the bee when he sting once. He is only stronger; and being stronger, have yet more power to work evil.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made an unnecessary sermon on Original Sin, neither understood by himself, nor the people.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys