“The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.”
“It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world.”
“The Vanishing Chip”
“I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.”
“…no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest of Europe and even in the United States, which likes vanished writers (vanished writers or millionaire writers) or the legend of vanished writers…”
“Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”