“The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.”
Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—
The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.”
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Vol. 2, ch. 18, p. 20 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=d68gSzbih8QC&q=remarked<br>On his famous remark, in August of 1914, about the impending outbreak of the First World War<br>Cf. John Alfred Spender: Life, Journalism and Politics, Vol. 2, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1927. Chp. 20, p. 14 archive.org http://www.archive.org/stream/lifejournalismpo02jasprich#page/14/mode/2up and w:The lamps are going out. <br class="br">Twenty-five Years (1925) <br class="br">Context: A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
On the "Pottery Barn Rule," The Colbert Report (16 May 2007)
“But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Once, I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
Debate with Bill Ayers on The Kelly File (Fox News, 2 July 2014) ( video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVUktKzPSA)
