European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #2)
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Once you realized that people were generally neither good nor evil, but simply oblivious, you could do pretty much as you pleased
“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
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“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.”
― Notes for a New Mythology: Pittsburgh Memoranda
― Notes for a New Mythology: Pittsburgh Memoranda
“Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.”
― The Woad to Wuin
― The Woad to Wuin
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