Cliff

“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.”
― Franz Kafka

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot