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The Inevitable, The Law Inevitable or Inevitable, (, literally Along lines of graduality) is a novel by Dutch author Louis Couperus, published in 1900. It was first translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and published in New York in 1920 by Dodd Mead and Company, and in London ('The Law Inevitable', 1921) by Thornton Butterworth. Both editions were reprinted once, in the year 1921. In 2005 a new edition was published by Pushkin Press, New York, titled 'Inevitable', without the definite article.
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“The law of necessity dispenses with things which otherwise are not lawful to be done.”
“The Citizen, of necessity, must speak to citizens, and therein lies its whole trouble!”
“Necessity is the law of the time and action, and things are lawful by necessity, which otherwise are not; "Quicguid necessitas cogit, defendit"; and the law of the time must regulate the law of the place in such public things.”
“I have often been told of people who have been able to continue one and the same dream over three and more successive nights: facts which clearly show that our innermost being, our common foundation, experiences dreams with profound pleasure and joyful necessity.”
“Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.”
“Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.