Joshua

“Why haven’t you changed?’ and she said, ‘Because the year I had this face, the month I wore these clothes, and the day I had my hair like this is my favourite time of all.’ ‘What time is that?’ I asked her. ‘The day we met twenty years ago,’ she said. I wondered to myself, ‘Then why have I aged like this?’ and she told me, ‘Because you wanted to go on changing, moving towards something more and more beautiful.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Sanshirō

“I am left with less
than one drop of my blood that does not tremble.
I recognize the the signs of the old flame.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

“There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one’s hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs

“Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers