Tom

“There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.”
― Gertrude Stein, Ida

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.”
― Joseph O'Neill, Netherland