It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
“All we know of Roman immorality teaches us that absolute power is a poison, and that the Romans, being fundamentally an inartistic people, had a taste for pornography which they often gratified in the description of individuals and families on which that poison had worked.”
Rebecca West | Black Lamb and Grey Falcon