Rob Arnott

“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment’s happiness is flung so high and dazzling over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment. Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self-absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.”
― Mark E. Smith, Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith