Ayesa

“Snobbishness is, after all, merely good breeding grown dictatorial; so Samuel’s code remained, but the necessity of imposing it upon others had faded out in a certain gutter.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“playing chess against oneself is thus as paradoxical as jumping over one’s own shadow.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“And yet it's probably this moment that I will have loved the most, the one when I accepted the fact that life is just as it appears to me now, quietly heart-breaking.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile

“Nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story