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“This unsightly condition is only temporary. Don't be sad. Don't fear. I will place you somwhere where the fish and the birds can strip away all this broken flesh. It will soon be gone. Then you will be a handsome skull and handsome bones. I will put you in good order and you can rest in the Sunlight and Starlight.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?”
― The Tell-Tale Heart
― The Tell-Tale Heart
“Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“No story ever truly ends as long as it is told.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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