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“Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.”
Source : Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.65, Vintage
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“I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.”
Source : Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult
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“Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.”
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“It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.”
Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks
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“But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!”
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“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
Source : Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1970). “Oresteia”, p.50, Univ of California Press
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“Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”
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“Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.”
