“that shows you the power of music, that magician of magicians ; who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”
― Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
― Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
“the opposite extremes of bigotry and indifference’12 were united.”
― Banks: A riveting account of one of the world's most famous explorers
― Banks: A riveting account of one of the world's most famous explorers
“I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.”
― Kidnapped
― Kidnapped
“In the private letters of Albert Sloane, by permission of the Sloane family.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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