Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.
The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Behind every tree there's a new monster.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.