"I propose to build for eternity."
- Filippo Brunelleschi ... See MoreSee Less

“So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars.”
— M. C. Escher ... See MoreSee Less

"Another darkness was closing in as surely, when the church bells, then ringing pleasantly in many an airy steeple over France, should be melted into thundering cannon; when the military drums should be beating to drown a wretched voice, that night all potent as the voice of Power and Plenty, Freedom and Life."
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

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"It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken, by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow."
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ... See MoreSee Less

"Then, with a whistling note that rose above the droning of the pit, the beam swung close over their heads, lighting the tops of the beech trees that line the road, and splitting the bricks, smashing the windows, firing the window frames, and bringing down in crumbling ruin a portion of the gable of the house nearest the corner."
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells ... See MoreSee Less

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot ... See MoreSee Less

“If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince ... See MoreSee Less

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson ... See MoreSee Less

“In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island ... See MoreSee Less

“Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords ... See MoreSee Less

“One is always at home in one's past...”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

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"His large blue eyes seemed to expand as he gazed around the assembly, and his countenance appeared elated by the conscious dignity, and imaginary merit, of the part which he was about to perform."
- Ivanhoe, Walter Scott ... See MoreSee Less

“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.”
― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning ... See MoreSee Less

"It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions."
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ... See MoreSee Less