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Quotes from Vergil in Averno — Avram Davidson

1923–1993 United States

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Though you expel Nature with a pitchfork, she will always return.

Vergil in Averno (1987)

Everything meant something, still, some meanings were revealed sooner than others. And that some were seemingly never revealed in no way disproved the fact.

Vergil in Averno (1987)

Clearly this was no time to ask if they should first define their terms. Nor, for that matter, had Socrates had to define the bowl of hemlock.

Vergil in Averno (1987)

It’s not a matter of who runs first or who runs last. It’s merely a matter of who gets caught.

Vergil in Averno (1987)

Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.

Vergil in Averno (1987)

It was but that, seeing him and so imagining that something about him was otherwise, automatically they feared him.

Vergil in Averno (1987)

It had not been precisely a fruitful meeting, but it had been a long one.

Vergil in Averno (1987)

It was a distinction without a difference.

Vergil in Averno (1987)

It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them...

Vergil in Averno (1987)

Suppose Sisyphus to have been acquitted his need of forever toiling up his hill in Hell, would he have made the last journey in joy? Or would mere fatigue have extinguished all other emotion, as a torch extinguished in a sconce?

Vergil in Averno (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Avram Davidson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.