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Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy…


Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #art

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.


Thomas Jefferson


#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #liberty

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.


Oscar Wilde


#oscar-wilde #insult

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.


Ansel Adams


#landscapes #photography #photography

That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like some slumberers in their beds; the ever rolling waves but made so by the restlessness.


Herman Melville


#seascape #dreams

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.


Jodi Picoult


#pain #scar #lonely

Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm.” There were a few moments of silence. “Sage, I’ve been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?


Richelle Mead


#sydney-sage #escape

What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.


T.S. Eliot


#loneliness #escape

Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold sober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.


Diana Wynne Jones


#castle #drunk #howl #sober #escape

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.


Shirley Jackson


#escapism #first-sentence #opening-lines #reality #sanity






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