“that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
― Sherlock Holmes: Complete Collection
― Sherlock Holmes: Complete Collection
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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