Malvika's Ramblings

Quote

Something I read once and wrote down somewhere. I just came across it unknowingly.

'I am in a chaos of principles - groping in the dark, acting by instinct and not after example. Eight or nine years ago when I came here first, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best.'

- Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy