Vasja

“The memory of having sat at someone's feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot.”
― Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro

“Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“He did not know how hawks mated but he knew that all things fought.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

“Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending