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“The Dream of Egypt was Eternity: her odors have the solidity of granite, and endure as long. I”

— Leslie S. Klinger

“Now this was like trying to comprehend all the activity of an anthill, and read all the words in a book, and feel all…

— Neal Stephenson

“Mistress to these footprints, Lover to the wake of where He has just passed, for the path he wanders is between us all. The…

— Steven Erikson

“Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed Because a summer evening passed; And little Ariadne cried That summer fancy fell at last To dust; and young…

— John Drinkwater

“The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.”

— Virginia Woolf

“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The…

— Jeanette Winterson

“His eyes were these bleak and empty abysses, like sockets. There was nothing there. The boy I thought I knew so well was gone.…

— Jenny Han

“As he took possession of it, he was overcome by a sense of something like sacred awe. He carefully spread his horse blanket on…

— Patrick Süskind

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When, after a long life, it falls out That he takes on a form he had sought And every word carved in stone Grows…

— Czesław Miłosz

“And when all was done and all was said, we sat silently staring at the moon's reflection on the rippling river, soaking it all…

— Alys Arden

“He was angles and darkness, her opposite - a moon-creature to her sun, a slicing shadow to her glow. But that was all silhoutte.…

— Laini Taylor