Famous quotes containing the words locked, room and/or murders:
“In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we do not know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“In a room on the floor below,
Sunless, coolera brimming
Saucer of wax, marbly and dim
I have lit whats left of my life.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
—John Adams (17351826)
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