I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.