dumasaphobic

“There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.”
― Léon Bloy, The Woman Who Was Poor

“the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.”
― Sanober Khan

“No English novelist is as great as Tolstoy –that is to say, has given so complete a picture of man’s life, both on its domestic and heroic side. No English novelist has explored man’s soul as deeply as Dostoyevsky. And no novelist anywhere has analysed the modern consciousness as successfully as Marcel Proust.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crisis of a society; on the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid this folly and live his life in order.”
― Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics and Gnosticism: Two Essays