#classic

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#dracula #horror #vampire #experience

Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#the-magic-mountain #experience

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#humor #humor

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#humor #wordplay #humor

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational #knowledge #philosophy #inspirational

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. ↗