Sergey

“And how can we lose this maddening self, lose it entirely? Love? Yes, but as old Cephalus once heard Sophocles say, the least of us know that love is a cruel and terrible master. One loses oneself for the sake of the other, but in doing so becomes enslaved and miserable to the most capricious of all the gods.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard