We may profit by their experience without paying the price which it cost them.-The Federalist papers by Hamilton, Madison and Jay
We may profit by their experience without paying the price which it cost them.-The Federalist papers by Hamilton, Madison and Jay
it was thus that i was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution, happiness with their disregard.
frankenstein, mary shelley
"And she opened the door of Fräulein Bürnster's room."
Here the light clicks across the white and gray
Corruption Poems by Camille Norton
There were two stools and two lamps at the workbench for the rare times when the son felt like joining his father, cleaning keys, but generally after breakfast the boy spent the rest of the day sitting behind Drummond in an old Naugahyde recliner, laughing to himself and saying prayers, or wandering out to the sidewalk to smoke a cigarette.
She began to go slowly upstairs, with her hand on the bannisters, as if she had left a party, where now this friend that had flashed back her, her voice; had shut the door and gone out and stood alone, a single figure against the appalling night, or rather, to be accurate, against the stare of this matter-of-fact June morning; soft with the glow of rose petals for some, she knew, and felt it, as she paused by the open staircase window which let in blinds flapping, dogs barking, let in, she thought, feeling herself suddenly shrivelled, aged, breastless, the grinding, blowing, flowering of the day, out of doors, out of the window, out of her body and brain which now failed, since Lady Bruton, whose lunch parties were said to be extraordinarily amusing, had not asked her.
Once, in Texas, I kicked a habit on weed, a pint of paregoric and a few Louis Armstrong records.
(Junky - Burroughs)
"Dementors here?"
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- JK Rowling, which I've been seriously neglecting in favor of my computer and must read twenty chapters of in order to finish the series by the premiere.
Des femmes de son âge, mariées, divorcées, plus jeunes.
"Laisse-moi seule."
(Trans. - "Leave me alone.")
He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it. -Middlemarch by George Eliot
"So here I am against my will, and yours, I know that; for no one loves the bearer of bad news."
Antigone, Sophocles
the elderly couple pass by,glance at them and notice nothing wrong.
The WINNER STANDS ALONE by Panlo Coelho .
But I won't say anything.
-demian by hesse
'Love me as well as ever, was my sister's.'
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady, Samuel Richardson.
I got there in the end :D and like it too.