Pontrieux Quotes & Sayings

Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing. — Milan Kundera

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. — James Baldwin

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind. — Virginia Woolf

A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon. — Herman Melville

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace