[Pantagruel] considered studying medicine, but then he reflected that it was much too irritating and gloomy a profession, and that... doctors smelled of enemas like the devil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when t...he stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.... Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I looked, there was nothing to see but more long streets and thousands of cars going along them, and dried-up country on each side... of the streets. It was like the Sahara, only dirty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To beguile the time, Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye,... Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »