Andreea

“The secret of happiness and the very height of artistic achievement is to be like everybody else, yet to be like no one on earth.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Loveless?--was it possible then that a woman should not love? That a young and pretty woman, living in Paris, reading books, applauding actresses for dying of passion on the stage, could live from youth to old age without once feeling her heart touched? He would not believe it
of any one else; why should she be different from all others, though she was his mother?”
― Maupassant (de) Guy, Pierre et Jean

“Bah! you, too, have ideals," he muttered, looking at her almost with hatred, and smiling sarcastically. "I ought to have considered that . . . . Well, that's praiseworthy, and it's better for you . . . and if you reach a line you won't overstep, you will be unhappy . . . and if you overstep it, maybe you will be still unhappier . . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus