Cathy Dao

“They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.”
― André Gide

“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura

“The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.”
― Alain De Botton