Fyodor Dostoevsky Фёдор Достоевский
1864 · St. Petersburg, Russia · The words of a forty-year-old man who lives shut up in a cellar
Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea.Notes from Underground, part 2 · in place of the original: the English translation by Constance Garnett (1918)
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Okakura Tenshin 岡倉天心
1906 · Yokohama, Japan · Boston, USA
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.The Book of Tea, chapter 1
Lewis Carroll
1865 · Oxford, England
‘Take some more tea,’ the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. ‘I’ve had nothing yet,’ Alice replied in an offended tone, ‘so I can’t take more.’ ‘You mean you can’t take less,’ said the Hatter: ‘it’s very easy to take more than nothing.’
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 7
Lucretius T. Lucretius Carus
c. 55 BC · Rome
It is sweet, when winds trouble the waters on the great sea, to watch from land another's great struggle; not because anyone's distress is a pleasure and delight, but because it is sweet to see what evils you yourself are spared.
Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;
non quia vexari quemquamst iucunda voluptas,
sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suavest.On the Nature of Things, book 2, the opening
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