Julia

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Comme jaloux, je souffre quatre fois : parce que je suis jaloux, parce que je me reproche de l’être, parce que je crains que ma jalousie ne blesse l’autre, parce que je me laisse assujettir à une banalité : je souffre d’être exclu, d’être agressif, d’être fou et d’être commun.”
― Roland Barthes

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus