Daniel

“but what fascinated me would be the asparagus, tinged with ultramarine and rosy pink which ran from their heads, finely stippled in mauve and azure, through a series of imperceptible changes to their white feet, still stained a little by the soil of their garden-bed: a rainbow-loveliness that was not of this world.”
― Marcel Proust, SWANN'S WAY (Modern Classics Series): In Search of Lost Time (Du Côté De Chez Swann) - Philosophical and Aesthetic Masterpiece that Titillated Even Virginia Woolf's Desire for Expression

“threats of war can frighten into submission no one who is determined to resist. They can only place the threat-makers in a more isolated and confused position.”
― Richard Wright, Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

“in spite of having witnessed the birth of the telephone they decline to believe in the aeroplane.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)

“In revolutionary times, those who accord themselves, with an extraordinary arrogance, the facile credit for having inflamed anarchy in their contemporaries fail to recognize that what appears to be a sad triumph is in fact due to a spontaneous disposition, determined by the social situation as a whole. —AUGUSTE COMTE, Cours de philosophie positive, Leçon 48”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles