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“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
Finnegan's Wake • James Joyce“ “It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.” ”
1984 • George Orwell““No one had any reason to be dissatisfied with what he had seen no one, that is, except for the starvation artist, he alone, always.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“Now the compound or composite may be supposed to be naturally capable of being dissolved in like manner as being compounded; but that which is uncompounded, and that only, must be, if anything is, indissoluble. ...And the uncompounded may be assumed to be the same and unchanging, where the compound is always changing and never the same? ...Is that idea or essence, which in the dialectical process we define as essence of true existence—whether essence of equality, beauty, or anything else: are these essences, I say, liable at times to some degree of change? or are they each of them always what they are, having the same simple, self-existent and unchanging forms, and not admitting of variation at all, or in any way, or at any time?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.”
Mark Twain's Notebook • Mark Twain