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Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a “symptom of deficient vitality,” and observed “a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
“This won’t work,” she said. “I’ve never had to work with something so small before.” “That’s what she said,” murmured Gideon, sotto voce.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“Maybe if I’d been raised gently by people who taught me to be kind and good, I’d know how to do it. But I was taught goodness and kindness, or what passes for it, by other damaged children, so I can’t.”
― The Jasmine Throne
― The Jasmine Throne
“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
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