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The Other Side by Alfred Kubin

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‘Can you hear the dead singing, the bright-green dead? They disintegrate in their graves, easily, painlessly. If you put your hand into their bodies all you feel are fragments, and the teeth come out so easily. Where is the life that drove ...more

The Death of Ivan Ilych

by Leo Tolstoy

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Howard’s Quotes

“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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“If one knew, he wondered, the facts,
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

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“I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.”
― Gustav Meyrink, The Golem

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“He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.”
― Émile Zola, Pot Luck

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“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it”
― Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

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