Empty shell Quote by Edith Wharton

“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window --…

— Neal Stephenson

“He turned his eyes to the skyline as was his wont. As he gazed at the still point of the universe, at the hinterland…

— T. Afsin

“This is what he was good at, he realized. This is what he did. He placed himself in the world, and the world drew…

— Bruce Brooks

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe…

— Lucretius

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling him to…

— Rebecca Rash

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.”

— Laurence Sterne

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

“The world was bright and strange and he was in the middle of it.”

— Terry Pratchett