Kathryn

“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

“As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Portable Thoreau

“Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her, toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew that it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait, she thought, and grow up to that world.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged