Elena Stefanova

“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.”
― Ramakrishna

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature