Famous quotes containing the words read and/or committed:
“Alas, the flesh is weary, and I’ve read all the books.”
—Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)
“Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph.... Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)