Christopher

“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or, if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

“How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road