dumasaphobic

“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

“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be." Leon Bloy”
― Léon Bloy

“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