Famous quotes containing the words wan, island and/or resort:
“one pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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