Nick C

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw