Nomen est Omen

“Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible, in his opinion, to gratify the most extravagant, absurd desires by a subtle subterfuge, by a slight modification of the object of one's wishes.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Il me semble que je serais toujours bien là où je ne suis pas, et cette question de déménagement en est une que je discute sans cesse avec mon âme.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“the voice was unexpectedly attractive...common in descriptions, rare in experince.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd