JD Robles

“for in this feeling alone he still felt something like happiness, something like an intoxication, something like an elevated form of life in the midst of his saturated, lukewarm, dull life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I don't know it, I don't know it just like you. I'm travelling. I was a rich man and am no rich man any more, and what I'll be tomorrow, I don't know.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I would be at pains to put my universe in order and set it ticking, when suddenly it would burst again into a mess of the same poor pieces,”
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

“the majesty of ruling glance and contemning look, the feeling of separation from the multitude with their duties and virtues, the kindly patronage and defense of whatever is misunderstood and calumniated, be it God or devil, the delight and practice of supreme justice, the art of commanding, the amplitude of will, the lingering eye which rarely admires, rarely looks up, rarely loves....”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil