David

“Sus alumnos se someten de buena gana a la influencia de cualquier escritor contemporáneo, incluso de los mediocres, pero se muestran totalmente indiferentes a autores clásicos como Shakespeare, Marco Aurelio, Epicteto o Pascal, y esa incapacidad para distinguir lo grande de lo pequeño manifiesta ante todo su desconocimiento ante la vida.”
― Antón P. Chéjov, Una historia aburrida

“I have no hobby. As far as my activities beyond the bounds of my recognized profession are concerned, I take them all, without exception, very seriously. So much so, that I should be horrified by the idea that they had anything to do with hobbies—preoccupations in which I had become mindlessly infatuated in order to kill the time—had I not become hardened by experience to such examples of this now widespread, barbarous mentality.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry

“While he lived a violent life in his imagination, Eva, lacking any imagination at all, lived violently in fact.”
― Tom Sharpe, Wilt

“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence.
I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man