Jamie

“Perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who have it, appear angelic”
― Mary Shelley, The Last Man

“At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“He too, was a tempter; he, too, was a link to the second, the evil world with which I no longer wanted to have anything to do.”
― Hermann Hesse

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?”
― Mary Shelley, The Last Man