John

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
― H.L. Mencken