Since time immemorial, one the dry earth, scraped to the bone, of this immeasurable country, a few men travelled ceaselessly, they... owned nothing, but they served no one, free and wretched lords in a strange kingdom. Janine did not know why this idea filled her with a sadness so soft and so vast that she closed her eyes. She only knew that this kingdom, which had always been promised to her would never be her, never again, except at this moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is indeed typical that you Earth people refuse to believe in the superiority of any world but your own. Children looking into a... magnifying glass, imagining the image you see is the image of your true size.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may decry some of these scruples and protest that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosoph...y. I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might... That fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little lives of earth and form, Of finding food, and keeping warm,... Are not like ours, and yet A kinship lingers nonetheless....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on t...he earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night--brothers who see now they are truly brothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »