“Looking at life from afar, I seemed lost in my indifference. My Sweet Orange Tree

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. Animal Farm

It was the first rift in my father’s sanctity, it was the first nick in the pillars on which my childish life had rested, and which every human being must destroy before he can become himself. It is of these experiences, invisible to everyone, that the inner, essential line of our destiny consists. That kind of rift and nick closes over again, it is healed and forgotten, but in the most secret chamber of the mind it continues to live and bleed. Demian

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Moby Dick