Xuan Dao

“There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.”
― Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems

“I looked at myself in the mirror and didn't like what I saw.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

“I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist