#extracts (I will never be consistent, so I won’t put the number in front)

"He reluctantly confessed the new feeling that soon overwhelmed him: reluctantly because nothing embarrassed him as deeply as boredom, that secret ailment from which the beautiful rebellious appetites of youth, and later the harsh necessity, had shielded him until then. Stepping out of his compartment, his heart empty of hope and joy, he walked back and forth, from one end to the other of the carriage, tormented by an uncertain curiosity, doubtfully searching for something new and absurd to attempt. Everything seemed insufficient to his desire. He was not even interested in the remnants of his adventure, which now appeared to him as compromising and foolish."

André Gide, The Vatican's Underground