Tag: Literature
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“There is a select group of writers who are accessible to anyone, at whatever age or stage of life – Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Balzac, Tolstoy – and then there are those whose significance is not properly revealed until a particular moment. Montaigne is one of these.” – Stefan Zweig Written by Stefan Zweig in 1942,…
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“It’s much safer to be feared than loved” (p.66). – Niccolo Machiavelli Written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published in 1432, The Prince is a political treatise that is considered one of the most famous, if not the most famous, book on politics ever written. Even if one has not heard of the man Machiavelli, the…
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“But in the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light, and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives” – Stefan Zweig Written by Stefan Zweig, “The World of Yesterday” is a memoir, not only of his…
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“Does it not strike you as odd that she should play so wonderfully, play Beethoven with such passion, and live so quietly?” A room with a view, a novel written by E.M Forester and adapted into a film directed by James Ivory, follows the romance of Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson as they met on…
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“Manuscripts don’t burn.” (P.323) “The man who called himself the master worked feverishly at his novel and the book cast its spell over the unknown woman” (p.157) ‘Think of what it’s like being in my position. Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man down-stairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that,…