Quote by Paul Bowles

“and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

“But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.”

— Ryünosuke Akutagawa

“Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbours, his church, his priest, his town, his…

— John Fante

“He had told us then that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level…

— Ernest J. Gaines

“He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery…

— Dean Koontz

“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.”

— William Golding

“The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving…

— Paul Bowles

“He respected them, and he hated them, and he knew the world would be lesser for their deaths.”

— Kiersten White

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“A man, a life - it was barely worth mentioning. The Visigoths had destroyed the Romans, and had themselves been destroyed by the Muslims.…

— Philipp Meyer

“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious…

— Samuel Beckett

“He abhorred people who said things that hadn’t been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.”

— Thomas Bernhard