MDS

“The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer recounts a fable in which he compares human beings to porcupines. On a cold day, the porcupines huddled together for warmth, but, in doing so, hurt each other with their spines. So they moved apart, but in this way became cold again.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“The Pasha sighed. He often did that when he took up quarters before a fortress that had to be taken. It was a reflex prompted by the first impression, always the deepest, before he became accustomed to the situation — it was rather like getting used to a woman.”
― Ismail Kadare, The Siege

“the only way a marriage can be successful is that the husband is scared shitless of his wife”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“And it is not possible for us, by our most chimerical wishes, to form the idea of a station or situation altogether desirable.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity