Vivi

“What is the life of a human being—a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“Bull, you are a man of science. Grub in the roots of those trees and find out the truth about them. Syme, you are a poet. Stare at those morning clouds. But I tell you this, that you will have found out the truth of the last tree and the top-most cloud before the truth about me”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“Here is no number," said Arthur looking over it.
"No anything! The very name of the street may have been floating in the air; for, as I tell you, none of my people can say where they got it from.”
― Charles Dickens

“I’m left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be some day.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition