“Its madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.”

“Its madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.”

“Every novel says to the reader: Things are not as simple as you think. That is the novels eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster th...”

“Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think.” That is the novel’s eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster...”

“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”