A SLOW READER

“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street

“My unhappiness protects me from life.”
― Orhan Pamuk

“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
― James Madison

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa