Celeste C

“It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“His expression combined that of a Middle-western farmer appraising his wheat-crop and that of an actor wondering whether he is observed - the public manner of all good Americans.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Wine, for serious drunks, enjoys only a limited success. There is, concerning inebriation, black magic and white magic; wine is only white magic.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“How good it is to be among reading people. Why are they not always like that? You can go up to one of them and touch him lightly; he feels nothing. And if in rising, you chance to bump lightly against a neighbor and excuse yourself, he nods toward the side from which he hears your voice, his face turns toward you and does not see you, and his hair is like that of a man asleep. How comforting that is.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge