Who knows Quote by James Joyce

“Aurum, argentum, gemmae, purpurea vestis, marmorea domus, cultus ager, pietae tabulae, phaleratus sonipes, caeteraque id genus mutam habent et superficiariam voluptatem: libri medullitus delectant,…

— Petrarch

“Lavallee, Apothecary’s Rose, Celsiana, Crested Moss, Souvenir de la Malmaison,”

— Maggie Oster

“Plictiseala? O convalescenta incurabila.”

— Emil Cioran

“All the expressions that are possible crossed its face, as if its thoughts were wise and limitless one moment, daft and animal the next.…

— Margo Lanagan

“Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of…

— Lewis Padgett

“Inde lacessitum primo mare, cum rudis Argo Miscuit ignotas temerato litore gentes Priamque cum ventis pelagique furentibus undis Conposuit mortale genus, fatisque per ilam…

— Lucan

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“As soon as he began to amalate the noeme, the clemise began to smother her and they fell into hydromuries, into savage ambonies, into…

— Julio Cortázar

“The absence of the article and the use of the status emphaticus are signs of the suppression of Phoenician and the advancement of Aramaean.”

— James John Courtenay

“incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim”

— Alexandreis

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

“What a phantasmagoria the mind is and meeting-place of dissemblables! At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic…

— Virginia Woolf