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“Nothing more wonderfully beautiful can exist than the Arctic night. It is dreamland. painted in the imagination's most delicate tints; it is color etherealized. One shade melts into the other, so that you cannot tell where one ends and the other begins, and yet they are all there. No forms - it is all faint, dreamy color music, a far-away, long-drawn-out melody on muted strings. Is not all life's beauty high, and delicate, and pure like this night? Give it brighter colors, and it is no longer so beautiful.”
― Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
― Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
“Is love so paltry a thing, to be plucked and dropped to the ground at the first breath of contempt?”
― Fall of Light
― Fall of Light
“We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing
characteristic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
characteristic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Tyler stood to go. “There’s a world out there, Tara,” he said. “And it will look a lot different once Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.”
― Educated
― Educated
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