Toni

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when "the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our jewels," when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“Gouverner, c'est voler. Tout le monde sait ça.”
― Albert Camus, Caligula