
Fantasies, inscribed to T. Crofton Croker, Esq.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
Fantasies, inscribed to T. Crofton Croker, Esq.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
The prince understood what she meant. Once reason was no longer your guide, you were like a man stranded in a featureless landscape. There were no landmarks to use. One direction was as likely to yield results as any other.
Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 26 (p. 353)
“One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.”
On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve.
No. 29; Variant translation: I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
“America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”
America (1956)