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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…
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Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps…
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Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild…
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The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the…
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I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
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The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.
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I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
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Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were…
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What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated…
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He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within…
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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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Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a…
— Hilary McKay
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I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I…
— Annie Dillard
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In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.
— Manohla Dargis
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Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where…
— Samuel Johnson
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Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which…
— Andre Breton
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I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars…
— Roberto Duran
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Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps…
— Mervyn Peake
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In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines,…
— Ken Wilber
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When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds…
— Ken Wilber
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My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!
— Dave Matthews
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Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
— Andy Zaltzman
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