Kenji

“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gathering Evidence

“Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what
one would do before all the world.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch