Sebastian

“don't understand why people think that every young man ought to go down-town and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work,”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“In perspective it was tremendous”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“for she was invaded by a kind of love which every girl has gone through —the love of the unknown, love in its vaguest form,”
― Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette