Surreal Number/powers of %cf%89

Famous quotes containing the words surreal, number and/or powers:

    “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects—making it possible ... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “If powers divine
    Behold our human actions—as they do—
    I doubt not then but innocence shall make
    False accusation blush.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)