“Spring” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/sanatorium/spring01.htm
His father, Books
“Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.”
Source: The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881), Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 18. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=33&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
Variant: To understand just one life you have to swallow the world... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Source: Midnight's Children
Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. An Outpost of Progress (1902)
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”
General sources
Source: Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George Eayrs
“Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon”
Source: No Mercy
Nick Adams of "Fathers and Sons" in Winner Take Nothing (1932)
