Shrubush

“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia