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“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience.”
― A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
― A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
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“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― The City & the City
― The City & the City
“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
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I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
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