Bahar

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead