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“But where could I find such pleasure in you, Lord - except in you, who teaches us by sorrow, who wound us to heal us, and kill us so that we may not die apart from you.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“...what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
― Herman Melville

“He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“O mortals, how long will you be heavy-hearted? Life has come down to you, and are you reluctant to ascend and live? But what room is there for you to ascend, you with your high-flown ways and lofty talk? Come down, that you may ascend, ascend even to God...”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“¿Que esperabas? - suspiró Úrsula -. El tiempo pasa.
- Así es - admitió Aureliano-, pero no tanto.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude