“Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.”
“Characters,” p. 299
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
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French novelist and essayist 1869–1951Related quotes
“People will inhabit places, but increasingly the economy inhabits a space.”
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day.”
Jorge Majfud (1969) Uruguayan-American writer
La generación FaceNoBook, Revista Alma Mater, La Habana (July 2012), p. 5
Muhammad al-Mahdi (869–941) 12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78 p. 380
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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
On other stars <br class="br">Attributed by John Burroughs on the first page of his 1920 book Accepting The Universe <br class="br">Attributed by Carl Sagan at a November 20, 1972 symposium on "Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man", held at Boston University <br class="br">[Berendzen, Richard, ed., Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man, 1973, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office, Washington, DC, LCCN 73-600150] <br class="br"> "Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man 1975", Google Video, c. 0:02:50, 2006-09-11 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8949469271181885482&q=owner%3Anara+type%3Anasa, Edited version of symposium, released by National Archives, under Google Video partnership http://www.archives.gov/google/. <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. It they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary (1988)
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Social Ideal, p. 146
James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 90.
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Variant translation: We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)