Geulincx Quotes & Sayings

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I who had loved the image of old Geulincx, dead young, who left me free, on the black boat of Ulysses, to crawl towards the East, along the deck. That is a great measure of freedom, for him who has not the pioneering spirit. And from the poop, poring upon the wave, a sadly rejoicing slave, I follow with my eyes the proud and futile wake. Which, as it bears me from no fatherland away, bears me onward to no shipwreck. — Samuel Beckett

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for. — Martin Amis

There are two types of speakers: those that
are nervous and those that are liars. — Mark Twain

Can I be a good person and spend that much money on overpriced consumer goods? I don't know. But I do know this: I'd be no good without them. — Nick Hornby

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — Louisa May Alcott