In every parting there is an image of death.
(George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life.)
Κατηγορία: Literature
Oscar Wilde, «The tragedy…»
The tragedy of old age is not
that one is old,
but that one is young.
(Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray.)
Robert Louis Stevenson, «The obscurest epoch…»
The obscurest epoch is today.
(Robert Louis Stevenson: Across the Plains.)
Goethe, «The century is advanced…»
The century is advanced,
but every individual begins afresh.
(Goethe: Maxims and Reflections.)
Balzac, «It takes a nonentity…»
It takes a nonentity to think of everything.
(Balzac: Pierre Grassou.)
G. K. Chesterton, «Literature is a luxury…»
Literature is a luxury;
fiction is a necessity.
(G. K. Chesterton: The Defendant.)
Ezra Pound, «Literature is news…»
Literature is news that stays news.
(Ezra Pound: ABC of Reading.)
Carlyle, «A well-written Life…»
A well-written Life is almost
as rare as a well-spent one.
(Carlyle: Richter.)
Γκαίτε, «Ο άνθρωπος…»
Ο άνθρωπος -τούτος ο μικρός τρελλόκοσμος…
(Γκαίτε: Φάουστ.)
Ben Jonson, «Language…»
Language most shows a man:
Speak, that I may see thee.
(Ben Jonson: Timber; or Discoveries.)