As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point... of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting--the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,... And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the town small-talk flows from lip to lip; Intrigues half-gathered, conversation-scraps,... Kitchen-cabals, and nursery-mishaps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, "I want something which I n...ever saw before" and "I wish I was not I."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizziness ...or disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that ... what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom ...is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, ... that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe a man is born first unto himself--for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty thin...gs are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of... the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What struck him most was the fact that from Monday on he would be Luzhin. His father--the real Luzhin, the elderly Luzhin, the wri...ter of books--left the nursery with a smile, rubbing his hands (already smeared for the night with transparent cold cream), and with his suede-slippered evening gait padded back to his bedroom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »