It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it incr...eases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say--I never ran my trai...n off the track and I never lost a passenger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make... money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can ste...p out of a railway station--the Gare D'Orsay--and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees--nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dear, I know nothing of Either, but when I try to imagine a faultless love... Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up ...from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Married love is a stream that, after a certain length of time, sinks into the earth and flows underground. Something is there, but... one does not know what. Only the vegetation shows that there is still water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perfect present has no existence in our consciousness. As I said years ago in Erewhon, it lives but upon the sufferance of past an...d future. We are like men standing on a narrow footbridge over a railway. We can watch the future hurrying like an express train towards us, and then hurrying into the past, but in the narrow strip of present we cannot see it. Strange that that which is the most essential to our consciousness should be exactly that of which we are least definitely conscious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Green, green is El Aghir. It has a railway station, And the wealth of its soil has borne many another fruit:... A mairie, a school and an elegant Salle de Fetes. Such blessings, as I remarked, in effect, to the waiter, Are added unto them that have plenty of water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »