“أخي صارَ ملاكاً. و أنـا.. سأكون شيطاناً، هذا لا ريب فيه.
الصغار إذا ماتوا يصيرون ملائكة و الكبار شياطين.
لقد فاتني أن أكون ملاكاً”
― الخبز الحافي
الصغار إذا ماتوا يصيرون ملائكة و الكبار شياطين.
لقد فاتني أن أكون ملاكاً”
― الخبز الحافي
“Oddly enough, she was one of the most thorough-going sceptics he had ever met, and possibly (this was a theory he used to make up to account for her, so transparent in some ways, so inscrutable in others), possibly she said to herself, As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship (her favourite reading as a girl was Huxley and Tyndall, and they were fond of these nautical metaphors), as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the sufferings of our fellow-prisoners (Huxley again); decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can. Those ruffians, the Gods, shan’t have it all their own way—her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives, were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady.”
― Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works
― Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works
“People”—Geralt turned his head—“like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Omne ignotum pro magnifico.”
― The Red-Headed League - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Red-Headed League - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
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