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“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
East Of Eden • John Steinbeck“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any experienced in a town when it is under siege.”
Candide • Voltaire“To a heart transformed by love, it is a mandolin.”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”
The Gay Science • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.”
Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens