The Gold Bug Variations Quotes

The loss of a great library to fire is a tragedy. But the surreptitious introduction of thousands of untraceable errors into reliable books, errors picked up and distributed endlessly by tireless researchers, is a nightmare beyond measure.

I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared.

Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.

Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici. I do no harm by remaining here.

People who still love words have to be forgiven everything.

The purpose of science was to revive and cultivate a perpetual state of wonder. For nothing deserved wonder so much as our capacity to feel it.