book quotes

“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn't matter; it may be worth while or it may be worthless. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than Go

"I must do great things that will be done by no other" -The Heroic Oath by Emily Dickinson

“Dr. Urbino smiled at her from the far shore of ecstasy...” -Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez