"Quotes."

I honestly ran a blank when trying to think of something to write about for the first option and the second option was about something I already commented on in another blog post. So I decided to collect quotes that I found to be compelling to me.

"Suppose within every book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but thesevolumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place." —Hilary Mantel (2009)

“No thought can perish,” —Edgar Allan Poe

“The Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them,” says Genesis; “and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” For each creature one name; for each name one creature. Soon, however, Adam had help.

“The name of a man is like his shadow,” onomatologist Ernst Pulgram in 1954. “It is not of his substance and not of his soul, but it lives with him and by him. Its presence is not vital, nor its absence fatal.”

"You should no more grieve for the rest than for a buckle lost from your first shoe, or for your lesson book which will be lost when you are old. We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language." —Septimus