Kasper

“Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.”
― Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way