“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book — to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the floor — to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire — to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower — to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind — to lose all sense of motion or physical existence in a state of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in — Such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to any thing like analysis or explanation.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“En la extraña anomalía de mi existencia, los sentimientos en mí nunca venían del corazón, y las pasiones siempre venían de la inteligencia.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“Igual que en la ética el mal es consecuencia del bien, en realidad de la alegría nace la tristeza. O la memoria de la dicha pasada es la angustia de hoy, o las agonías que son se originan en los éxtasis que pudieron haber sido.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“Las realidades del mundo terrestre me afectaron como visiones, sólo como visiones, mientras las extrañas ideas del mundo de los sueños, por el contrario, se tornaron no en materia de mi existencia cotidiana, sino realmente en mi cínica y total existencia.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“W tej właśnie komnacie przyszedłem na świat. Z odmętów długiej nocy, która miała pozór, lecz nie była nicością, wyłoniłem się po to, aby wkroczyć nagle w krainę baśni, w pałacowe przepychy fantazji, w dziwaczne dziedziny myśli i wiedzy klasztornej. Nie dziw tedy, że przerażonym a płomiennym wzrokiem badałem świat dookolny, że dzieciństwo spędziłem wśród ksiąg, a młodość roztrwoniłem na marzeniach; lecz zastanawia ta okoliczność, że gdy lata upływały i południe dojrzałego wieku zastało mnie jeszcze żywcem w gnieździe mych przodków — zastanawia, powtarzam, ta okoliczność, że bijące źródła mojego życia zaprawiły się nagłym zastojem, że w kierunku najwłaściwszego mi myślenia stał się przewrót zupełny. Zjawiska rzeczywistości potrącały o mnie jak sny i tylko jako sny, podczas gdy szaleńcze pomysły z krainy snów stały się w zamian nie tylko strawą mego codziennego istnienia, lecz stanowczo jedynym i całkowitym istnieniem w samym sobie.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“que malgastara mi niñez entre libros”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“En los días más brillantes de su belleza incomparable no la amé. En la extraña anomalía de mi existencia, mis sentimientos nunca venían del corazón, y mis pasiones siempre venían de la mente.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“(...) wspomnienie minionego szczęścia stanowi żałość dnia dzisiejszego”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“Ci i owi bez wątpienia pomyślą, że mój rozum, tracący równowagę pod wpływem błahostek, był poniekąd pokrewny owej skale morskiej, o której Ptolemeusz Hefestion opowiada, że opierała się niewzruszenie wszelkim napaściom ludzkim i straszliwszym jeszcze wściekłościom wałów wodnych i wichrów, a drżała jedynie pod dotykiem kwiecia zwanego asfodelą.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
“Igual que en la ética el mal es consecuencia del bien, en realidad de la alegría nace la tristeza.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Berenice
Edgar Allan Poe
Born place: in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
Born date January 19, 1809
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“I don't think any of us wanted most of what's been given to us these past few weeks. We didn't want any of it to happen. But it has. I think I understand what that means. It means we must exercise grace in the face of fear and doubt and loss of belief. It means we must understand that this is how life works ─ that it challenges us; it tests us. It gives us burdens to bear, and the measure of who we are is how we manage those burdens.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from Bloodfire Quest
“Deliverance' is The Godfather for crackers.”
― Josh Bazell, quote from Beat the Reaper
“They studied Zoorlandian customs and laws. The region was rocky and windy, and the wind was recognized as a positive force since by championing equality in not tolerating towers and tall trees, it only subserved the public aspirations of atmospheric strata that kept diligent watch over the uniformity of the temperature.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Glory
“I make no apology for this digression, especially as this is an introduction which all young people and those who never like to think (and it is a bad habit) will naturally skip. It seems to me very desirable that we should sometimes try to understand the limitations of our nature, so that we may not be carried away by the pride of knowledge. Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will never, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference. It is the one fixed unchangeable thing -- fixed as the stars, more enduring than the mountains, as unalterable as the way of the Eternal. Human nature is God's kaleidoscope, and the little bits of coloured glass which represent our passions, hopes, fears, joys, aspirations towards good and evil and what not, are turned in His mighty hand as surely and as certainly as it turns the stars, and continually fall into new patterns and combinations. But the composing elements remain the same, nor will there be one more bit of coloured glass nor one less for ever and ever.”
― H. Rider Haggard, quote from Allan Quatermain
“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from Hear the Wind Sing
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