Ben Scobie

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions
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if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World