"Danaid" Quotes from Famous Books
... heroic resignation irritated Clerambault profoundly. The upper classes are charmed with it, no doubt, for they owe their existence to it,—but it makes a Danaid's sieve of the human race, and its age-long effort, since all its courage, its virtues, and its labours, are spent in learning how to die.... But when he looked at the fragment of a man before him, his heart was pierced with ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain |