Lewis Carroll

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• I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that’s the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?

  Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 4: A Cunning Conspiracy

  • Children

• The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

  The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Roger Lancelyn Green (1989), p. 10

  • Comedy
  • Writing

• Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

  Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Preface

  • Life & Death

All 48 quotes from Lewis Carroll

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy