Sylvia Plath
- A Birthday Present
What is this behind this veil? Is it ugly, is it beautiful? Is it shimmering, has it breasts, has it edges? I'm sure it is unique. I'm sure it is just what I want. When I am quiet at my cooking I feel it looking, I feel it thinking, "Is this the one I am to appear for? Is this the elect one?"
Emerson M. Pugh
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, the human would be much too simple to understand it. This much we are certain of, this much we know that we know.
Lewis Carroll
- 'The Mouse's Tale' from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Fury said to a mouse that he met in the house, "Let us both go to law: I will prosecute you. Come, I'll take no denial. We must have a trial for really this morning I've nothing to do." Said the mouse to the cur, "Such a trial, dear sir, with no jury or judge would be wasting our breath. "I'll be judge, I'll be jury," said cunning old Fury, "I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."
Oscar Wilde
- from Preface to Dorian Gray
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Emily Brontë
- from Wuthering Heights
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
