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“Always be comic in a tragedy”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“That is his greatness. Caesar and Napoleon put all their genius into being heard of, and they were heard of. He puts all his genius into not being heard of, and he is not heard of. But you cannot be for five minutes in the room with him without feeling that Caesar and Napoleon would have been children in his hands”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“Yet these new women would always pay to a man the extravagant compliment which no ordinary woman ever pays to him, that of listening while he is talking.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front-”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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