Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
All men are mad but the humorist, who cares for nothing and possesses everything.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The whole affair was miserably small: his debts were small, even his expectations were not anything so very magnificent. Fred had known men to whom he would have been ashamed of confessing the smallness of his scrapes.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Sergei Ivanovich, who knew like no one else how to add some Attic salt8 to the end of a most abstract and serious discussion
Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)

“And . . . the worst of it was he was so coarse, so dirty, he had the manners of a pothouse; and . . . and even admitting that he knew he had some of the essentials of a gentleman . . . what was there in that to be proud of? Everyone ought to be a gentleman and more than that . . . and all the same (he remembered) he, too, had done little things
... See moreFyodor Dostoyevsky • The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
