Quotes by : Iain Pears

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free.....

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it....

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do....

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of....

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.

I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began."And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness....

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls].....

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already....

[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning....

Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought....