Littlevision

“I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“A friend said, "Ah, I get it. All of my life I have gone into every next event asking, in effect, What's in it for me? Now I see that what I must do is go into every event asking, What can I do for them?" And my friend had grievously missed the point. The great discovery is that we have nothing to give at all to anyone, anywhere.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, Magical Child

“So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.”
― Rumer Godden, The River

“Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am”
― Rumer Godden, The River