Hermann and Humbert are alike only in the sense that two dragons painted by the same artist at different periods of his life resem...ble each other. Both are neurotic scoundrels, yet there is a green lane in Paradise where Humbert is permitted to wander at dusk once a year; but Hell shall never parole Hermann.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The king said, -Divide the living boy in two; then give half to the one, and half to the other. But the woman whose son was alive... said to the king -because compassion for her son burned within her - -Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him! The other said, -It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. Then the king responded: -Give the first woman the living boy; do not kill him. She is his mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are ...lit only from one side unused and empty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact is that love is of two kinds--one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to whi...ch the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year ...or two, at farthest, it would be granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,... Until the lengthening wings break into fireLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stop it you fools. Stop it I said. I'm mad, good and mad.... I'm mad and who wouldn't be. You, Dunson pretendin' you're gonna kill... him. Why it's the last thing in the world you--Stay still. I'm mad, I told you. And you Matthew Garth, gettin' your face all beat up and all bloody. You oughta see, you oughta see how silly you look, like something the cat dragged--. Stay still. What a fool I've been. Expectin' trouble for days, when anybody with half a mind would know you two love each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know why one can't chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, g...o ahead and pursue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »