← During my life, I’ve come into contact with a whole bunch of serious people. 🔊✎
← And if the planet is too small, and there are too many baobabs, they’ll split it into pieces. 🔊✎
← My bolt was driving me crazy, and I said the first thing that came into my head: 🔊✎
← “if I ordered,” he would often say, “If I ordered a general to change himself into a sea-bird and the general didn’t obey, that wouldn’t be the general’s fault. It would be my fault.” 🔊✎
← “If I ordered a general to flit from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragedy, or to change himself into a sea-bird, and the general didn’t obey the order he’d received, whose fault would it be, his or mine?” 🔊✎
← “Authority is based on reason. If you order your people to jump into the sea, there’ll be a revolution. 🔊✎
← If its two billion inhabitants were to stand close together, as they would at a public meeting, you would easily fit them into a square twenty miles long and twenty miles wide.
← I held him in my arms like a little child, but at the same time I felt he was falling into a dark hole, and there was nothing I could do to hold him back. 🔊✎
← Some evening, he forgot the glass cover, or maybe the sheep escaped silently during the night…” And then all the little bells turn into tears!