Xuan Dao

“I looked at myself in the mirror and didn't like what I saw.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“That room - once you enter it, you never really leave. You can forget you're there, you can go on as if you hold the reins, that the course of your life, yeah even its length, will reflect the force of your character and the wisdom of your judgments. And then you hit an icy path on a turn one sunny March day and the wheel in your hands becomes a joke and you no more than a spectator to your own dreamy slide toward the verge, and then you remember where you are.”
― Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

“There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.”
― Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems

“My eyes filled with tears and I wept long and hard, unable, and unwilling, to stop.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist