Rick

“How do you know when you're in love?' she said.
'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low.”
― Muriel Spark, The Takeover

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
― Marcel Proust

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
― Thornton Wilder