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Melmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Robert Maturin

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"Am I not driven from the presence of God and the region of paradise, and sent to wander amid world of barrenness and curse for ever and ever?" — Sep 13, 2025 09:23AM

Sep 13, 2025 09:22AM

Dylan’s Quotes

“Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid,
We have built a tower of stone high into the sky,
We have built a city of towers.”
― Conrad Aiken, The House of Dust: a Symphony

tags: poetry

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“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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“Cosmos mariner destination unknown”
― Conrad Aiken

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