Richard

“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating
conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

“All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.”
― John Gardner, Grendel