💬 Quotes

"To survive in the North, one had to listen to the ancient voice—the call that demanded freedom above comfort and life above all else."

"Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."

"An man, at least, is free; he can explore all passions and all countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted."

"The future was a dark corridor, and at the end of it the door was locked."

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, when we long to make music that will wring tears from the stars."

"She wanted to die, but she wanted to live in Paris."

"The ordinary bourgeois life seemed to her unnatural, all the passing happiness of which she had dreamed improbable."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact."

"I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream."

"Through this forest have I gone, but Athenian found I none, on whose eyes I might approve this flower's force and stir up love."

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

"It is a formidable block of philosophy, but there is well-nigh as much noise in the world as there is music."

"There is a realm in which the most astute police investigator is out of his depth."

"The longer you stay the more you will realize that I am a dogmatic person, who packs his own impressions down into neat little dogmatic bundles."

"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"

"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing... It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising many-sided manner to something entirely different."

"I must govern myself, may not seek my own gratification, in hoping to make a brute of another."

"You are all kindness, madam, as I ever found you, and I can truly say, that your counsel and example have done me greater good than anything else."