"For sight is woman-like and shuns the old."

-- Victor Hugo

“There is nothing more important in life than love.”
“Itâ€™s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”
“In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office”
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
“Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.”
“Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.”
“Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

You may also like:

Albert Camus
Author
Alexandre Dumas
Writer
Charles Baudelaire
Poet
Emile Zola
Writer
Gustave Flaubert
Writer
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
Jules Verne
Novelist
Juliette Drouet
Actress
Voltaire
Writer