Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-AdamDead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-AdamEvery human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam