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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: anatomy, morbid, moriarty, science, sherlock, skull, study
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: crime, devil, evil, mankind
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: intrigue, mystery, sherlock-holmes
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    Dante Alighieri
    “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: philosophy
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “He calls it reason, using it To be more beast than ever beast was yet.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust; a Tragedy
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “This greater life, this godlike bliss!
    You, but a worm, have you earned this?
    Choosing to turn your back, ah yes,
    On all Earth’s lovely Sun might promise!
    Let me dare to throw those gates open,
    That other men go creeping by!

    Now’s the time, to prove through action
    Man’s dignity may rise divinely high,
    Never trembling at that void where,
    Imagination damns itself to pain

    Striving towards the passage there
    Round whose mouth all Hell’s fires flame;
    Choose to take that step, happy to go
    Where danger lies, where Nothingness may flow...”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
    tags: faust
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: inferno-canto-vi-105
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    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Through me you pass into the city of woe:
    Through me you pass into eternal pain:
    Through me among the people lost for aye.
    Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
    To rear me was the task of power divine,
    Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
    Before me things create were none, save things
    Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
    All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
    tags: inferno
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    William Shakespeare
    “What's in a name? that which we call a rose
    By any other name would smell as sweet.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: identity, labels, names, personality
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    Madeline Miller
    “Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, ashes, dead, free, names, patrochilles, patroclus
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    Coco J. Ginger
    “I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue.

    Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each letter.

    Your name, which I played with so carelessly, so easily, has somehow become sacred to my lips.

    A name I won’t throw around lightheartedly or repeat without deep thought.

    And if ever I speak of you, I use the English language to describe who you were to me. You are nameless, because those letters grouped together in that familiar form….. carries too much meaning for my capricious heart.”
    ― Jamie Weise
    tags: love, love-story, memories, names, passion, remembering, sentiment, thoughts, writers, your-name
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    Emily Brontë
    “If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: classics, love, obsession
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    Homer
    “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: classics, education
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    Siri Hustvedt
    “I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.”
    ― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
    tags: anatomy, love, metaphor, poetry
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: adult, barrie, classics, fantasy, j-m, pan, peter, young
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    tags: classics, humor, satire, vanity
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    Homer
    “Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, death, fate, greece, grief, wisdom
    369 likes

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    Horatius
    “Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."

    If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
    ― Horace
    tags: ancient-rome, classics, horace, latin
    254 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “Countless words
    count less
    than the silent balance
    between yin and yang”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: chinese-literature, classics, tao-te-ching
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    Emily Brontë
    “May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: classics
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: love, marriage
    5835 likes



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