Mona Lisa

“autobiography is probably the most monstrous act of conceit that exists.”
― Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thou shalt prove how salty tastes another’s bread, and how hard a path it is to go up and down another’s stairs.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy:

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
― Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche