26 quotes found
“The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born”
“Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is unfound the spirit must seek to quench its thirst with ephemeral novelties. And what is more natur...”
“Shortly afterwards it started raining, very innocently at first, but the sky was packed tight with cloud and gradually the drops grew bigger and heavier, until it was autumns dismal rain that was f...”
“It was pretty miserable wretches that minded at all whether they were wet or dry. He could not understand why such people had been born. "It's nothing but damned eccentricity to want to be dry" he ...”
“A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat”
“People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent”
