Famous quotes containing the words european, source and/or book:
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.... My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliffhes always, always in my mindnot as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myselfbut as my own being.”
—Emily Brontë (18181848)
“For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrification of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalions little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.”
—Caroline Lejeune (18971973)