Famous quotes containing the words world, darts and/or day:
“The book borrower of real stature whom we envisage here proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures and by the deaf ear which he turns to all reminders from the everyday world of legality as by his failure to read these books.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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