Famous quotes containing the words distant, object and/or discovered:
“Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crown the watry glade.”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“[Tolstoy] discoveredand certainly never realized his discoveryhe discovered a method of picturing life which most pleasingly and exactly corresponds to our idea of time. He is the only writer I know of whose watch keeps time with numberless watches of his readers.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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