Close Sets

Famous quotes containing the words close and/or sets:

“Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.”
—Kingsley Amis (b. 1922)

“In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it.... Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty—he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world—alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)