Sofia

“… a clever man so seldom needs to think”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“I got home and I thought I should stop leading so aimless an existence. It is harder than you might think to stop leading an existence, & if you can’t do that the only thing you can do is to introduce an element of purposefulness.”
― Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai

“But if we have learned nothing else, we have learned this: Humans can walk away from, and forget, anything. Civilization can go back to ‘normal’ after anything.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“Gelon’s shockingly handsome. But it’s a desolate handsome, which only makes it better. Gelon had a face you’d imagine demands contentment, yet the briefest look at him dispels this. It’s a cheeky reminder that beauty isn’t everything. Look, it seems to say. Here’s Gelon: godlike, broken Gelon. Look and remember that beauty isn’t all.”
― Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits