Hermann Graf Keyserling Quotes

#1. Svensson is renovating his ruin.

Thomas Pletzinger

#2. I am not in the habit of deflowering governesses." "I am not in the habit of being deflowered by pirates. Shall we consider it a draw?"

-Luc & Arabella

Katharine Ashe

#3. I've always lived in a city.

Ana Gasteyer

#4. You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

Helen Gurley Brown

#5. No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

Hermann Graf Keyserling

#6. It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.

Hermann Graf Keyserling

#7. He stopped, because he wasn't sure what Cryptography had established, and because he needed another moment to haul himself down from the ledges of her high cheekbones, to retreat from the caves of her eyes.

Samuel R. Delany

#8. Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Isadora Duncan

#9. It's not a war. It's an annihilation," he'd mumbled low for her ears only. She'd been unable to respond, only focusing on her own breath and marveling that she in fact was still breathing.

Jettie Necole

#10. The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

Hermann Graf Keyserling

#11. I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.

Dasha Zhukova

#12. When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.

Murasaki Shikibu