Quote by Gaston Leroux

“He had a hear that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a…

— Gaston Laroux

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with…

— Gaston Leroux

“Even I would be moved by his kindness at times, but he could, just as easily, be malicious and cruel. He was both a…

— Haruki Murakami

“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our…

— Primo Levi

“He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No…

— Shilpa Agarwal

“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings…

— George Eliot

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“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 wasn't classically beautiful, but he had the sort of presence you couldn't teach, the kind that came from knowing your own power, owning…

— Kit Rocha

“he met the eyes of others with unanswering eyes, for he felt that the spirit of beauty had folded him round like a mantle…

— James Joyce

“And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world,…

— Jonathan Franzen