Vivi

“Bull, you are a man of science. Grub in the roots of those trees and find out the truth about them. Syme, you are a poet. Stare at those morning clouds. But I tell you this, that you will have found out the truth of the last tree and the top-most cloud before the truth about me”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“Along and marshong, indeed. It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting 'em up in quarantine!"
"Tiresome enough," said the other. "But we shall be out today."
"Out to-day!" repeated the first. "It's almost of an aggravation of the enormity, that we shall be out to-day. Out! What have we ever been in for?”
― Charles Dickens , Little Dorrit

“That's what Brother Gogol does. He goes about on his hands and knees with such inexhaustible diplomacy, that by this time he finds it quite difficult to walk upright”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“What is the life of a human being—a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man