José Monico

“I have attempted to tear asunder the veil you have hung to conceal from us the pain of life, and I have been wounded by the mystery...Oedipus, half way to finding the word of the enigma, young Faust, regretting already the simple life, the life of the heart, I come back to you repentant, reconciled, O gentle deceiver!”
― Joseph Conrad

“In modern times we suffer not for our sins - sin having been abolished - but for ideology.”
― Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

“If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defense against what was said, but answer, "He surely knows not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!”
― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“A flower of light pointlessly beautiful.”
― Stephen Baxter