Daniel

“Augen sind Hände, die man lebenslang nicht wäscht; so behalten sie die schmutzige Gewohnheit, alles anzurühren.”
― Robert Musil, Die Schwärmer

“Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”
― Mikhail Lermontov

“No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.”
― William Beckford, The Episodes of Vathek