Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or surface:
“We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In the cold of Europe, under prudish northern fogs, except when slaughter is afoot, you only glimpse the crawling cruelty of your fellow men. But their rottenness rises to the surface as soon as they are tickled by the hideous fevers of the tropics.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)