marisdreaming

“Non si impedisce al pensiero di tornare a un'idea, come non si impedisce al mare di tornare alla riva. Per il marinaio ciò si chiama marea: pel colpevole si chiama rimorso.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own