Luke

“When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. ”
― Hermann Hesse

“It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Submission

“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.”
― John Steinbeck