Robert Graber

“Culture! Yes—if we had it! But there are just a few little local patches, dying out here and there for lack of—well, hoeing and cross-fertilising: the last remnants of the old European tradition that your forebears brought with them. But you're in a pitiful little minority: you've got no centre, no competition, no audience. You're like the pictures on the walls of a deserted house: 'The Portrait of a Gentleman.' You'll never amount to anything, any of you, till you roll up your sleeves and get right down into the muck. That, or emigrate ... God! If I could emigrate ...”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“You would not seek me if you did not possess me.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul...
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― Ernest Renan