Famous quotes containing the words fact, crime and/or book:
“I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made mea bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isnt dignified doesnt worry me.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“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)
“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
—George Gissing (18571903)