"There are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh street-lamps."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters ... See MoreSee Less

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"The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns."
- James Joyce, Dubliners ... See MoreSee Less

"Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain - Quaintest thoughts - queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
- Edgar Allan Poe, Lines on Ale ... See MoreSee Less

"Every man's life is a path to himself, the attempt at a path, the sketch of a path."
- Hermann Hesse, Demian ... See MoreSee Less

"Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass
Stains the white radiance of Eternity
Until Death tramples it to fragments."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais ... See MoreSee Less

"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached."
- Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms ... See MoreSee Less

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"The crowd is not only the newest asylum of outlaws; it is also the latest narcotic for those abandoned. The flâneur is an abandoned person in the crowd."
- Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism ... See MoreSee Less

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me."
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées ... See MoreSee Less

"The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go."
- Emily Brontë, Spellbound ... See MoreSee Less

"Night is a world lit by itself."
- Antonio Porchia, Voices ... See MoreSee Less

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante ... See MoreSee Less

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ... See MoreSee Less

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations ... See MoreSee Less