Famous quotes containing the words world and/or conventions:
“The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)