“But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.”

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. ”

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”

“Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.”

“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”

“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

Underlined passage: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The things that’ll make you fail I’ll love always— the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”

“We fear death, we shudder at life’s instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”

“How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?”