Sophie Blumert

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature