Joshua

“Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

“Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Why haven’t you changed?’ and she said, ‘Because the year I had this face, the month I wore these clothes, and the day I had my hair like this is my favourite time of all.’ ‘What time is that?’ I asked her. ‘The day we met twenty years ago,’ she said. I wondered to myself, ‘Then why have I aged like this?’ and she told me, ‘Because you wanted to go on changing, moving towards something more and more beautiful.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Sanshirō