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“But soon," he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”
― Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text
― Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text
“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“I would prefer not to.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”
― The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
― The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
“The sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall. The proud do not endure, like a passing dream on a night in spring; the mighty fall at last, to be no more than dust before the wind.”
― The Tale of the Heike
― The Tale of the Heike
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