“Alone dwells every man and everyone mocks everyone else, and a deserted island is our pain.”
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
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“If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 115
“In today’s world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.”
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Truman Library address (2006)
“Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?”
Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) American novelist and screenwriter
“Some, in getting ahead of everyone, are winning themselves the desert.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Algunos, adelantándose a todos, van ganando el desierto.
Voces (1943)
“The desert is not an island: the island is not enchanted: and the desert is no habitation for men.”
Peter Levi (1931–2000) writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest
"To speak about the soul"
“Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.”
Samuel R. Delany book Triton
Source: Triton (1976), Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 54)
