Twilight Lasts

Famous quotes containing the words twilight and/or lasts:

    “But we still remember ... above all, the cool, free aspect of the wild apple trees, generously proffering their fruit to us, though still green and crude,—the hard, round, glossy fruit, which, if not ripe, still was not poison, but New English too, brought hither, its ancestors, by ours once. These gentler trees imparted a half-civilized and twilight aspect to the otherwise barbarian land.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)