Tom

“I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.”
― Joseph O'Neill, Netherland

“There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.”
― Gertrude Stein, Ida

“It is the most insignificant moments, where there is nothing to show, nothing to tell, that are the most beautiful.”
― Antoine Leiris, Vous n'aurez pas ma haine

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude