1.
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
Olaf Stapledon
3.
It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.
Olaf Stapledon
4.
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
Olaf Stapledon
5.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
6.
Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.
Daniel Handler
7.
Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.
Daniel Handler
8.
I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.
Neil Patrick Harris
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Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.
Laurell K. Hamilton