Allen O'Brien

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments