Tom

“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

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry: Le charlatan

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

“It is the most insignificant moments, where there is nothing to show, nothing to tell, that are the most beautiful.”
― Antoine Leiris, Vous n'aurez pas ma haine