Source: We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters
Vanity Fair; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 91
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder, Cap 19
Context: But these quiet people, in their animal skin clothes with their diet of sago, were not to be left alone to wander through the lush jungles, living off the land, leaving no mark when they moved on, teaching their children the secrets of the forest. The greed of others could not co-exist with the selflessness of the Penan with their gentle humour and generous hearts.
Ibid., p. 88
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
Journal entry (27 February 1849) on President Zachary Taylor, published in The Autobiography of William H. Seward (1877).
“You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!”
Source: On the Prowl
“I only cherished service to people. There should not be greed even in service.”
Source: Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
An Interview with Jean-Pierre Serre - Singapore Mathematical Society https://sms.math.nus.edu.sg/smsmedley/Vol-13-1/An%20interview%20with%20Jean-Pierre%20Serre(CT%20Chong%20&%20YK%20Leong).pdf
