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“The terrace and the whole place, the lawn and the garden beyond it, all I could see of the park, were empty with a great emptiness.”
― The Turn of the Screw
― The Turn of the Screw
“We find ourselves in the last of the three generations history chooses to repeat every now and then. The first generation needs a god, and so they invent one. The second erects temples to that god and tries to imitate him. And the third uses the marble from those temples to build brothels in which to worship their own greed, lust, and dishonesty. And that is why gods and heroes are always, inevitably, succeeded by mediocrities, cowards, and imbeciles.”
― The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid
― The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid
“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Wine isn’t strong enough. It’s blood I want.”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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