Maxolino

“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had just as good a life as grandfather's though not as long. You've had as good a life as any because of these last days. You do not want to complain when you have been so lucky. I wish there was some way to pass on what I've learned, though.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.”
― Julius Evola

“I am not what you see and hear.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov