Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“O for some sharp swish of a branch
there is no scent of resin
in this place.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“He admired the terrible recreative power of his memory. It was only with the weakening of this generator whose fecundity diminishes with age that he could hope for his torture to be appeased. But it appeared that the power to make him suffer of one of Odette’s statements seemed exhausted, then one of these statements on which Swann’s spirit had until then not dwelled, an almost new word relayed the others and struck him with new vigor.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)