Day and night Quote by Joanna Southcott

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

“By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment’s idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that…

— Arthur Machen

“Who knows what wonders, what horrors, may have transpired in the dim past, before our race stood erect? Who can guess at the mysteries…

— S.T. Joshi

“Just make sure to select something that was written before our hyperconnected era and yet seems timeless. Such writings can challenge our assumptions about…

— Greg McKeown

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…

— Shirley Hazzard

“Who cannot recall, as I can, the reading they did in the holidays, which one would conceal successively in all those hours of the…

— Marcel Proust

“the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to…

— Elyne Mitchell

“...silently gazing beneath the stars. And in that fall of light from heaven to earth perhaps all our stories were told, all actions of…

— Niall Williams

In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had written for…

— William Godwin

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader…

— Georges Cuvier

“What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?”

— Graham Greene