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“Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?”
― Elric of Melniboné
― Elric of Melniboné
“he could see it glinting at his fingertips, ready to be fashioned.”
― Cryptozoic!
― Cryptozoic!
“When he woke, she was gone. He lay for a long while looking up at the tent roof, wondering how much he cared. He needed company, although he was never wholly comfortable with it; he needed a woman, although he was never wholly happy with one. He wanted to talk, although he knew most talk was an admission of non-communication.”
― Cryptozoic!
― Cryptozoic!
“how far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act?”
― Cryptozoic!
― Cryptozoic!
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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