Mana

“There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“the heterogeneous indistinguishable mass of college boys, interested only in love at first sight,...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.”
― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It