Bob

“She felt like fastening little labels on the furniture: Lady Louise Carrington Lounge Chair, Last used August 1923. Not for the benefit of posterity: but to remove her own self into another world, another realm of existence.”
― D.H. Lawrence, St. Mawr / The Man Who Died

“He is full of purpose, but void of the quality of mind which accomplishes purpose.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge on Shakespeare

“The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“I sat at my ease, even somnolently, as I steered with one finger and slowly drove through Berlin, down quiet, cold, whispering streets; and so it went on and on, until I noticed that I had left Berlin behind. The colors of the day were reduced to a mere two: black (the pattern of the bare trees, the asphalt) and whitish (the sky, the patches of snow). It continued, my sleepy transportation.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair