"Bend Sinister" Quotes
"Bend Sinister" is a dystopian novel about a philosopher who confronts a totalitarian regime that upends his life and challenges his beliefs.
fiction | 208 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The only way to survive is to have a sense of humor.
People don't love each other at our age, Marat. They please each other, that's all.
Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.
The rational man groans as he gropes for the truth; he knows how it's got to be, but when he finds it, he can't believe it.
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Nothing on earth really matters, there is nothing to fear, and death is but a question of style, a mere literary device, a musical resolution.
The people I detest are those who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
