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• There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang…
• Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
• There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps…
• Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild…
• The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the…
• I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
• The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.
• I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
• Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were…
• What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated…
• He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within…
• This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously…

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