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“Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "…some of the best fighters have come from your own planet…" "Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked. "Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who’s spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
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“I don’t feel that I’m using technology. I don’t feel that I’m wearing technology. I feel that I am technology.”
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“Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,”
Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag
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“Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.”
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“Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.”
Source : Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.455, The Floating Press
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“How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?”
Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.312, W. W. Norton & Company
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“What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.”
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“I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.”
