Andreea

“It is tragic how few people ever ‘possess their souls’ before they die. ‘Nothing is more rare in any man,’ says Emerson, ‘than an act of his own.’ It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behaviour. When they want to be praised, which is often, when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“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

“Everything is of God, he reflected; everything has two meanings, one manifest, one hidden.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ