- Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe - online literature
Ligeia (1838) And the will therein lieth, which dieth not Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will --Joseph Glanvill I Cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where
- Which Dreamed It? | Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
'YOUR Red Majesty shouldn't purr so loud,' Alice said, rubbing her eyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with some severity 'You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you've been along with me, Kitty—all through the Looking-glass world Did you know it, dear?'
- Why did Victor Hugo write that the interior of the soul is grander . . .
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul ” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Whether "the interior of the soul" "is one spectacle grander than the sky" ― doesn't this depend on the soul and the morality of a person? Would Hugo's quotation still apply to evildoers? I lit upon this quotation
- The Column: The Man Who Dreamed He Was Made Of Glass
Andrew Knighton's column this month is on the glass architecture of a dreamer and utopian fabulist named Paul Scheerbart What do Scheerbart's fantasies have to do with the blue-glass persona of Minneapolis? Tune in next month
- Glass Souls - Maurizio de Giovanni - Europa Editions
Maurizio de Giovanni Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples In 2005, he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the thirties about Commissario Ricciardi, which was then turned into the first novel of the series His books have been successfully translated into French, Spanish and German, and are now available in English for the first time
- 句句都可以拿出来做周杰伦歌词（The Wings of the Dove）书评
He had never dreamed of so much gilt and glass, so much satin and plush, so much rosewood and marble and malachite But it was, about all, the solid forms, the wasted finish, the misguided cost, the general attestation of morality and money, a good conscience and a big balance
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: (Ch. 2) The Vanishing Glass
The Vanishing Glass Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all The sun rose
- “To whatever end?” she breathed. Rowan followed her, as he had his . . .
Rowan followed her, as he had his entire life, long before they had ever met, before their souls had sparked into existence “To whatever end, Fireheart ” ― Sarah J Maas, Kingdom of Ash tags: aelin-ashryver-galathynius, kingdom-of-ash, rowaelin, rowan-whitethorn, throne-of-glass Read more quotes from Sarah J Maas Share this quote:
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