“The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do. It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries.”
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly”
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“I moved closer to him, attracted, fascinated: in the midst of such passion, death itself became appealing...”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
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