Zach C

“Understanding,' in all honesty, is a word pregnant with difficulties, but also with hope.”
― Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

“Leave the letter that never begins to go find the latter that ever comes to end, written in smoke and blurred by mist and signed of solitude, sealed at night.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“The traveler who's just climbed a steep mountain sits down at the top, and finds perfect pleasure in resting. Would he be as happy, if he were forced to do nothing but rest?”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“There is no will-o-the-wisp so elusive as the cause of any human act”
― John Barth, The Floating Opera