من در جستجوی چیزی بودم که لیاقت مرا داشته باشد و برای این منظور بایستی با سماجت به قهقرا و پستی فرو روم (رذل) - André Gide

I had resigned my temporary lectureship — thankless, dreary work, from which I would be suddenly distracted by the slightest song, the slightest sound coming from the country outside; in every passing cry I heard an invitation. How often I have leapt from my reading and run to the window to see — nothing pass by! How often I have hurried out of doors. . . The only attention I found possible was that of my five senses.

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene — a moment's forgetfulness suffice.

ناتانائیل! ای کاش عظمت در نگاه تو باشد نه در آنچه بدان می نگری...