
“But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.”
Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 11.
“But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.”
Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 11.
“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I didn’t know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.”
Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 21, p. 217.
1850s, The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question (1859)
Context: The principle of our Revolution, as defined by its leaders with sublime simplicity, was, that as Liberty is a natural right of man, every man has consequent equal rights in society, subject indeed to limitation, but not to annihilation. 'But', cries Mister Douglas, in his Memphis speech last November. I quote his words,. It would have been very easy to say this. Our fathers did not say it, because they did not mean it. They were men who meant what they said, and who said what they meant, and meaning all men, they said all men. They were patriots asserting a principle and ready to die for it, not politicians pettifogging for the presidency.
“I meant what I said,
and I said what I meant
An elephant's faithful,
One hundred percent.”
Source: Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)