An Lifschitz

“I've been working like a machine, and feeling like a lost soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

“   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear