‘When the men were off somewhere, he would come visiting their wives more solicitously than any priest they’d had before . . .’
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‘O let them be left, wildness and wet . . .’
‘Into two I’ll slice the hair-seat of Helga’s kiss-gulper . . .’
‘People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed – a knife – a purse – and a dark lane . . .’
‘We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from earliest youth . . . Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.’
‘You shall have thousands of gold pieces; – thousands of thousands – millions – mountains, of gold: where will you keep them?’
‘. . . revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.’
‘. . . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food . . .’
‘Can I bear to leave these blue hills?’
‘All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages . . .’
‘It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.’
‘Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone . . .’
‘Hoodwinked with faery fancy . . .’
‘Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me . . .’
‘They trailed in all their vulgar glory over the fresh green grass . . .’
‘You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder.’
‘Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced that it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.’
‘The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them, as a reef in the sea confronts the tossing billows in a gale.’
‘Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?’
‘The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.’
‘I blush to say what happened next.’
‘The devil gave the woman a nudge: “Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher’s shirt!” ’
‘There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels.’
‘Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.’
‘I truly thought I’d never make it back.’
‘. . . a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich.’
‘A glass of wine, a lover lovely as
The moon . . .’
‘Those husbands that I had, Three of them were good and two were bad. The three that I call “good” were rich and old.’
‘No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.’
‘. . . dreaming of bears, or fire, or water . . .’
‘Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror . . . the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul . . .’
‘While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet’
‘She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them . . .’
‘ “Oh, good God,” he kept saying with great relish. “Good God . . .” ’
‘Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain’s brow
Adown enormous ravines slope amain – . . .’
‘I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.’
‘Desperate-minded villain!’
‘No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.’
‘Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass . . .’
‘He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in their innards might catch fire . . .’
‘This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.’
‘The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing . . .’
‘All those excessive, useless regrets . . .’
‘I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn’t soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.’
‘She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, “Pretty boy!”, “Your servant, sir!” and “Hail Mary!” ’
‘Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.’
‘With one’s face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .’
‘If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.’
‘Did she know and if she knew would she speak?’
‘Tonight he noticed how the women’s eyes
Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.’
‘They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.’
‘. . . I’ll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I’m doing.’
‘She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth.’
‘The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them . . .’
‘It’s a dreadful thing to yield . . . but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That’s dreadful too.’
‘Ah, what is the life of a human being – a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.’
‘If I stopped now, after coming all this way – well, they’d call me an idiot!’
‘. . . in this painting of Leonardo’s there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human . . .’
‘He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest.’
‘Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?’
‘An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion . . .’
‘Wake, butterfly –’
‘. . . ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king’
‘It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head . . .’
‘Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts . . .’
‘At night, among the reeds on the bayou, Chicot could still hear the woman’s wail, mingled now with the croaking of the frogs.’
‘The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus . . .’
‘Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her . . .’
‘I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I’m torn in two.’
‘You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns . . .’
‘But I ran up the broken stairway, and came out suddenly, as by a miracle, clean on the platform of my San Tommaso, in the tremendous sunshine.’
‘And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his – his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go.’
‘Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .’
‘Yes, we did many things, then – all
Beautiful . . .’
‘No, no, I’ve got your word for it, I’ve got to die . . . you promised me . . . you told me . . .’
‘But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas’ scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.’
‘I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.’
‘Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.’
‘To the utterly at-one with Śiva there’s no dawn . . .’
‘For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.’
‘Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age!—just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout—too old to be agreable, and too young to die.’
‘No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.’
‘The pleasure is twice as sweet
When you cheat a cheat.’
‘. . . slowly uncoiling their tentacles . . . and making a soft purring sound to each other’
‘We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.’
‘The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.’
‘It is only a bruise.’
‘PALE TERROR GOES BEFORE HIM, DEATH AND DEVASTATION FOLLOW AFTER!’
‘How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?’
‘A ghastly groan and a shudder . . .’
‘ “She’s an adventuress. Yes, an adventuress, but an end-of-the-century one. She doesn’t travel for profit, but for pleasure.” ’
‘Surely this is a new refinement in cruelty . . .’
‘I took the pistols, scarcely knowing what I did or believing what I heard, while Dupin went on, very much as if in a soliloquy.’
‘Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.’
‘And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, “Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman.” ’
‘She’s done for . . .’
‘ “You are not my first passion, my divine friend, but you shall be my last.” ’
‘But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet . . .’
‘She bared her poor curst arm’
‘You elegant fowl!’
‘Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax!
Now listen, you musical twerps,
I don’t give a damn for your burps!’
‘Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?’
‘What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.’
‘It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.’
‘We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues . . .’
‘I cried, “Come, tell me how you live!”
And thumped him on the head.’
‘Let others in the jolting Coach confide, Or in the leaky Boat the Thames divide’
‘ “Strange man, how can you have eyes for sale? Eyes? Eyes?” ’
‘Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!’
‘Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.’
‘I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that’s what I’d like to know!’
‘Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.’
‘And when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars.’
‘It’s coming — the postponeless Creature’
‘This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.’
‘I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever’
‘Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on me, and the glittering serpent, like a familiar demon, on her breast?’
‘My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man’s life?’
‘It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself’
‘Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.’
‘. . . that strange internal kingdom of which we are the hapless and helpless monarchs.’
‘Idleness is the enemy of the soul’
‘I’m not myself – I’m somebody else – that’s me yonder – no – that’s somebody else got into my shoes . . . I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am!’
‘It’s you who are the dogs . . .’
‘Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?’ Cambronne answered, ‘Merde!’
‘Reader, if you’re ready, so am I.’
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’
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Ghosts
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Tang Dynasty Poets
at Night
Alone
Beneath the
Cherry Trees
Your Enemies
St Agnes
Much Missed
Fatale
Land of Serpents
and Pearls
and Medea
Manifesto
Feast
Was Brought to Light by
a Common or Garden
Butcher’s Dog
Tinder
Box
the Hundred
Sorrows
of Hell
Piemen
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and Laugh at
the Same Thing
Terrors
of the Night
Tell-Tale Heart
Banquet
Beautifull
Cassandra
and here
must I remain
Incomplete
Jottings
Winglebury
Duel
Maldive
Shark
Nurse’s Story
Steel Flea
Mass
Wall-Paper
Body...
Heart
Great Fire
of London
the Carpet
Doomed Youth
Father
Defence
Market
the Sailor
a Stupid Man
Does A Man
Need?
da Vinci
Arthur Savile’s
Crime
Old Man
of the Moon
the Whales and
the Gudgeon
is Darkening
Round Me
Sir Francis Drake
Around the
Whole Globe
Silk Stockings
butterflies
Bridegroom
and
I Love
the Cyclops
Icarus
Close
Beautiful Lands
Alexis
the Microscope
of Cambyses
of Śiva
Dhammapada
Politic
is Full of
Foolish Men
at Dusk
Ivan Ilyich
White Elephant
Yellow Book
Detective
Medieval Woman
Murano
beauty is born
Withered
Arm
so Clever
a Young Poet
Hanged
or, the Art
of Walking the
Streets of London
Sandman
the sun and
other stars
of Spades
Breakdown
of Tea
which I see
before me?
stood a
loaded gun
and Chloe
Nights
Are Brilliant at
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