7 quotes found
“People perish. Books are immortal.”
“For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.”
“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195”
“And the great thing about money is that it doesnt matter when you harvest it. Its an all-year crop.”
“Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82”
“The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.”
“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this...”
