Top 17 The Purloined Letter Quotes
#1. Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.
Jacques Lacan
#2. What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.
Vincent Buranelli
#3. We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.
Kevin Plank
#4. There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.
Marisa De Los Santos
#5. Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.
Dalai Lama
#6. If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.
Thia Megia
#7. I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.
Tony Burgess
#8. Be the judge of what is fair and justified to you, and don't take less than what you deserve.
Bryan Wilton
#9. One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'
Josh Dun
#10. Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out?
Nothing.
Ari Gold
#12. The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.
Jane Fonda
#13. MASHA: Isn't there some meaning?
TOOZENBACH: Meaning? ... Look out there, it's snowing. What's the meaning of that?
Anton Chekhov
#14. Sometimes, the monsters are terribly beautiful, and the heroes loathsome.
Yasmine Galenorn
#15. For in general mortals have a great power of being astonished at the presence of an effect toward which they have done everything, and at the absence of an effect toward which they had done nothing but desire it.
George Eliot
#17. Rus, dancing alongside Roza like a monstrous, bedraggled pony.
Laura Ruby
