Catherine Sharp

“It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, was bound to transfigure my own face, to make me resplendent. I was then 23 years old. From that moment on, I felt capable of advancing in cruelty.”
― Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal

“The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.”
― Emil Cioran

“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
― Warren Buffett

“Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.”
― Shannon L. Alder