There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. The Name of The Rose
When... in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? Notes from Underground
This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries. Book VII
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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