" Merely as an observer of natural phenomena, I am fascinated by my own personal appearance............... .................. ......................................I simply have a morbid interest in it."
My face, Robert Benchley, pg.510
" I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,- to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society"
Walking, Henry David Thoreau, pg. 480
" I had always supposed, dear friend, that loving your province as you do, you were resolved upon the practice, there, of detachment, scorn, silence."
Some blind Alleys: A letter, E.M Cioran,pg.404
" Just now, when everyone is bound, under the pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lese-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade"
An apology for Idlers,Robert Louis Stevenson, pg.222
" It is and inexpressible pleasure to know a little of the world, and be of no Character or Signigicancy in it"*****
Twenty-four Hours in London, Addison & Steele,pg.129
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