Young man Quote by Ayn Rand

“in the strange dizziness of that moment, the statue every man eventually erects and that hardens in the fire of the years, into which…

— Albert Camus

“Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the…

— Marcel Proust

“As he took possession of it, he was overcome by a sense of something like sacred awe. He carefully spread his horse blanket on…

— Patrick Süskind

“Think, Dagny, what it is to sit by the window in the eventide and hear the kelpie wailing in the boat-house; to sit waiting…

— Henrik Ibsen

“He did not want to see her photograph and discover what the years had wrought, or hear about the details of her life. He…

— Ian McEwan

“She looked like a statue of pride hanging its head.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“As he passed people rushing by the scores of thousands on the streets, he saw the glory of their faces. He saw in the…

— Mark Helprin

“even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep. Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so that all…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“SHE CAME TO a moment later and found the god of the sea between her legs, her skirts rucked up scandalously high once more,…

— Maggie Fenton

“As the figure moved before him he followed the muscles as they wove beneath the skin. he was not only fighting with an assailant…

— Mervyn Peake

“He suggested devils, skulls, harsh masculine drawings. This thing was…heart poundingly good. She wanted to pluck it, and bury her face in it, and…

— Charlotte Stein

“But now, at the table, behind the fall of the tablecloth, behind the sheath of skin, hanging head downwards between cliffs of bone, was…

— Enid Bagnold