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“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
― Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Duino Elegies
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Duino Elegies
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Classics and the Western Canon
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