“Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.”
"The Country of Elusion"
The Trimmed Lamp (1907)
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American short story writer 1862–1910Related quotes
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”
from "Elegy for Wonderland", by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959
“I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.”
In Bohemia.
p. 5809 http://www.lordmeher.org/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=5809
Lord Meher (1986)
Things to Come (1936)
cited in Marco Travaglio, Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo.
2000s - 2010s
“Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day.”
Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.
Maxim 789, trans. Stopp
Variant translation by Saunders: Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day. (332)
Variant translation: Nothing is worth more than this day.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story