Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily... - Aldous Huxley

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” said Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.”

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted, skate about cheerfully on the surface and never think of inquiring what's underneath.

Si l'on est différent, il est fatal qu'on soit seul.