Gef

“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“... there are shadows because there are hills.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Like a wallflower he stayed in the background waiting for someone to fetch him, someone more courageous and stronger than himself to tear him away and force him into happiness.”
― Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel