Famous quotes containing the words lotus and/or point:
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)