Die Des Champs

Famous quotes containing the words die, des and/or champs:

    “Christianity gave Eros poison to drink:Mhe did not die of it, to be sure, but degenerated into a vice.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “One difference between Nazi and Soviet camps was that in the latter dying was a slower process.”
    —Terrence Des Pres (1939–1987)

    “[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)