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“Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.”
Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.
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“By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.”
Source : Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.1444, Library of Alexandria
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“I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth”
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“Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.”
Source : Frank Bidart (2017). “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016”, p.706, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!”
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“Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.”
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“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
