The fox, he felt, had never seen his past disposed of like a fall of water. He had never measured off his day in moments: another-...-another--another. But now, thrown down so deeply in himself, into the darkness of the well, surprised by pain and hunger, might he not revert to an earlier condition, regain capacities which formerly were useless to him, pass from animal to Henry, become human in his prison, X his days, count, wait, listen for another--another--another--another?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that I ...care. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am willing, for a money consideration, to test this physical strength, this nervous force, and muscular power with which I've be...en gifted, to show that they will bear a certain strain. If I break down, if my brain gives way under want of sleep, my heart ceases to respond to the calls made on my circulatory system, or the surcharged veins of my extremities burst--if, in short, I fall helpless, or it may be, dead on the track, then I lose my money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their a...gility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their min...ds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today. That we may look at them, in their gardens where... The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly. Even the leaves fall down in lovelier patterns here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Well!" thought Alice to herself. "After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave they'll all... think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" (Which was very likely true.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down.... Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely... religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »