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The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-year-old boy and girl. A lonely boy, and a lonely girl. A classroom, just after school let out, at the beginning of winter. They had neither the power ...

1Q84

Let your rest be perfect in its season, like the rest of waters that are still. If you will have a model or your living, take neither the stars, for they fly without ceasing, nor the ocean that ebbs and flows, nor the river that cannot stay, but rath...

The Intellectual Life

When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead" When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you'll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf,...

Marlborough and Other Poems

Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave? Come and visit your good friend Sweeney. You sir, too sir? Welcome to the grave. I will have vengenance. I will have salvation. Who sir, you sir? No ones in the chair, Come on! Come on! Sweeney's. waiting...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And too often is his gold complex...

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance with the divine purpose. If an analogy exists between the growth we observe in the vegetable kingdom and ...

The Philosophy Of Ancient Britain

Man is a world-forming being, a being that actively constitutes his own world, but when everything is always already fully coded, the active constituting of the world is made superfluous, and we lose friction in relation to the world.We Romantics ne...

A Philosophy of Boredom

She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time—the twilight of the double vision in which so many elderly people are involved. If this world is not to our taste, well, at all events, ...

A Passage to India

These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of the best or the many in aristocracy and democracy, ...

On Violence

Oh God, I love Thee mightily, Not only for Thy saving me, Nor yet because who love not Thee Must burn throughout eternity. Thou, Thou, my Jesu, once didst me Embrace upon the bitter Tree. For me the nails, the soldier's spear, With injury and insult,...

Robert Hugh Benson

43. To his friend a man should bear him as friend, to him and a friend of his; but let him beware that he be not the friend of one who is friend to his foe. 44. Hast thou a friend whom thou trustest well, from whom thou cravest good? Share thy mind w...

Hávamál - The sayings of the high one

My Creed I do not choose to be a common man, It is my right to be uncommon … if I can, I seek opportunity … not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen. Humbled and dulled by having the State look after me. I want to take the calculated risk...

Dean Alfange

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

A Clash of Kings

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

Centuries Of Meditations

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." [ ]

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

In America, the glass is neither full nor empty. It is buy one, get one free.

Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

Duino Elegies

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be.

Doctor Faustus

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

Dominion

For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.

Die schwarze Spinne