Nelly

“But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End

“The more we have known of the really good things, the more insipid the thin lemonade of later literature becomes, sometimes almost to the point of making us sick. Do you know a work of literature written in the last, say, fifteen years that you think has any lasting quality? I don't. It is partly idle chatter, partly propaganda, partly self-pitying sentimentality, but there is no insight, no ideas, no clarity, no substance and almost always the language is bad and constrained. On this subject I am quite consciously a laudator temporis acti.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“Telle est la vie des hommes. Quelques joies, très vite effacées par d'inoubliables chagrins.”
― Marcel Pagnol