

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World

“Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger

“Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different?”
― 1984
― 1984

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984

“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.”
― The Emperor's Soul
― The Emperor's Soul
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