Serge Albertoff

“While still a student, Napoleon had written on the last page of his geography book: "St. Helena. Small island." This may have been what we call a coincidence, but the thought must certainly have aroused terror in him in his last days.”
― Akutagawa Ryunosuke

“Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)”
― Ovid

“That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
― Augustine of Hippo