Preslava

“And what is that going to lead to?"
"The acquisition of knowledge," he smiled.
"It doesn't sound very practical."
"Perhaps it isn't and on the other hand perhaps it is. But it's enormous fun.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“Cynicism always enchanted me by producing a delicious feeling of self-assurance and of being in league with myself”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

“For with the complete disappearance of my boredom, to which I had not dared to give a name, I had changed for the better.”
― Françoise Sagann

“The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth -- all save this -- come and go with us through life; again and again in riper years we experience, under a new stimulus, what we thought had been finally left behind, the authentic impulse to action, the renewal of power and its concentration on a new object; again and again a new truth is revealed to us in whose light all our previous knowledge must be rearranged.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited