Source: Howards End
“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
“But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind”
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 16
Context: One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.
“Crime levels those whom it pollutes.”
Facinus quos inquinat aequat.
Book V, line 290 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
Source: Exit West
“I have never lost the feeling of contradiction that lies behind all knowledge.”
Gertrude (1910)
Context: That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized. I now had further cause for serious reflection. Right up to the present I have never lost the feeling of contradiction that lies behind all knowledge. My life has been miserable and difficult, and yet to others, and sometimes to myself, it has seemed rich and wonderful. Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.
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The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami (Tulsi Books, 2010)
“I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.”
Source: A Passage to India
