“I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.”
Source: Henderson the Rain King
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Captain Francis McCullagh, "The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity," page 238.
Addressing the court shortly before being sentenced to ten years in the GULAG.
Busta Rhymes (1972) American rapper, actor, record producer and record executive from New York
Muslim Busta Rhymes http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2y9ze_muslim-busta-rhymes_music,
“a perpetual stranger
am I to the world
I don't understand its language
my silence it can't comprehend”
Bei Dao (1949) contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet
"A perpetual stranger...", p. 110
Variant translation:
In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
“I am not now in fortune's power:
He that is down can fall no lower.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 877
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Annie Ernaux (1940) French writer
Quoted in But Enough About Me by Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press, 2002), p. 96
Exteriors (1993)