“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness.”
—The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
June 2013
“Herbert had sometimes said to me that he found it pleasant to stand at one of our windows after dark, when the tide was running down, and to think that it was flowing, with everything it bore, towards Clara.”
—Great Expectations, Dickens
“….for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learn’d the language of another world.” —Lord Byron, from “Manfred”
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learn’d the language of another world.” —Lord Byron, from “Manfred”
“You’ve a place in my heart no one else ever could have.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace
“If others go to Hell, I will go too. But I do not believe that; on the contrary, I believe that all will be saved, myself with them—something which arouses my deepest amazement.”
—Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers
“Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”
—Bertrand Russell
