Books Quote by Akutagawa Ryunosuke

“What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons…

— Paul Valéry

“The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life…

— Susanna Clarke

“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic , where he was…

— Lucian of Samosata

“The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and…

— John Dixon Phoenix Island

“Helena was spellbound by the amazing view of the almost black waters of the sea at night, sparkling like liquid silver from the reflection…

— Angel Sefer

“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided…

— Victor Hugo

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands”

— Margaret Craven

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and…

— Roberto Bolano

“How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?”

— Thomas Sowell

“There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new.”

— Ann Brashares

“Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet…

— Diane Ackerman