macrolit:

“Develop an interest in life as you see it: the people, things, literature, music. The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

Henry Miller

macrolit:

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

macrolit:

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy (b. 2 June 1840)