Seth

“If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“I suppose one night hundreds of thousands of years ago in a cave by a night fire when one of those shaggy men wakened to gaze over the banked coals at his woman, his children, and thought of their being cold, dead, gone forever. Then he must have wept. And he put out his hand in the night to the woman who must die some day and to the children who must follow her. And for a little bit next morning, he treated them somewhat better, for he saw that they, like himself, had the seed of night in them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“The moral sense in mortals is the duty
We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.”
― vladimir nabokov, Lolita

“A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true answer to the wonder of being. The itch for sensation, even though disguised in the mask of Boheme, is a sure indication of a bourgeois mind and a deadened sense of wonder.”
― josef pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture