“To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“And Apollo lord of the silver bow and Queen Athena,
for all the world like carrion birds, like vultures,
slowly settled atop the broad towering oak.”
― The Iliad
for all the world like carrion birds, like vultures,
slowly settled atop the broad towering oak.”
― The Iliad
“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”
― The Happy Prince
― The Happy Prince
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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