Sublime

When you have something to prove, you aren’t free. Even though I didn’t yet know anything about his childhood during our first visit, I could tell that Emma’s father was living in a prison of his own making—he was living within a limited image of who he should be.

human enough to wander, human enough to wonder, but still sustained with that merry fatalism

Le soir approchait, et maintenant, en pensant à l’asile, je m’attristai un peu. Je n’étais pas en proie au désespoir, il s’était produit ces deux derniers jours des tas de choses en moi, mais je sentais pourtant que ce n’était pas là un endroit fait pour moi, ce mode de vie m’humiliait et m’impressionnait fort.