Paula

“Youth is the age of despairs.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

“I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, it cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We sound the depths of Hell very often in this life.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four