💬 Quotes

"No one goes to the Lighthouse now, James thought, looking at the lighthouse. The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening."

"They remained for a moment standing together in the great hall, and the silence of the house seemed to be pressing on them, as if the house had been empty for a long time."

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air."

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ’t."

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"

"Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine."

"Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more."

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble."

"That I did always love / I bring thee proof / That till I loved / I never lived – enough."

"Wild nights – Wild nights! / Were I with thee / Wild nights should be / Our luxury!"

"If you were coming in the fall, / I'd brush the summer by / With half a smile and half a spurn, / As housewives do a fly."

"Exultation is the going / Of an inland soul to sea, / Past the houses – past the headlands – / Into deep Eternity –"

"The Soul selects her own Society — / Then — shuts the Door — / To her divine Majority — / Present no more —"

"My life closed twice before its close; / It yet remains to see / If Immortality unveil / A third event to me."

"Biology enables, Culture forbids."

"You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven."

"Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised."

"The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud."

"We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all this power."

"Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of wealth, health or even community. It depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations."