Lynn

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“a man who loses his privacy loses everything...a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. the loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray