It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
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I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . .… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
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I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
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“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger… he is pure air and fire; and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
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