Isaac

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

“Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source." These thoughts seemed to him comforting. But they were only thoughts. Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun. And there was the former agitation and obscurity.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment