Luda Leksunkin

“It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own — not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction — not seeking anything through the shame but the shame itself!”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn’t stay still. Why stay still now?”
― Rob Liano