Small Surface

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or surface:

“To starve to death is a small thing, but to lose one’s integrity is a great one.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: “It’s four o’clock ... At five I have my abyss.””
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)