Famous quotes containing the words fact, crime and/or book:
“This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death,the possibility of a mans dying. It seems as if no man had ever died in America before; for in order to die you must first have lived.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankindah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneselfconfronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the authors book at all, but rather in the readers head.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)