Status Updates From La festa

I feel like i’m reading a classic from school right now but I also feel smart so

'"This time tomorrow," she said, "we shall be up on the headland feasting and revelling. Now we are here, thinking about it. Afterwards we shall be in other places, thinking about it. So it will sort of happen for a long time in a lot of places."'

'"Civilization after civilization has gone down into the dust because we cannot manage to be humble."'

'"Christians," said Evangeline huffily, "are supposed to be self-sacrificing." "Yes. But it isn't right to encourage people to behave badly, just in order to be a noble victim. That's not returning good for evil. It's merely helping them to go to hell."'

'When I think a bit more of myself, I shall ask you to think more of me, but not till then.'

'She pervaded and ruled their lives like some unpropitious climate, and they accepted her rule as inevitable, evading its harshness by instinct rather than by reason.'

'Thought travels. I remain...where I was.'