I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate. Demian

“Why did people want to rob him of the fame of fasting longer?”  A Hunger Artist

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“And justice lies in appearance, at least in this world, at least in the eyes of the multitude.” Leo Africanus