Christopher

“He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. “The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish,” he wrote. “His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away from home, but to feel oneself everywhere at home.”
― Elaine Sciolino, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs

“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that’s not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

“The desire to come apart irrevocably will always be as strong as, if not stronger than, the drive to establish oneself.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett

“Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong. The”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women