"The round towers of the castles looked as……" — Hope Mirrlees
"The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble."
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and…
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
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For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge…
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For a man's house is his castle.
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