Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...
Tags: beauty children nature classic spring
You must come to Lockleigh again," said Miss Molyneux, very sweetly, to Isabel, ignoring this remark of Isabel's friend. Isabel looked into her quiet eyes a moment, and for that moment seemed to see in their grey depths the reflexion of everything she had rejected in rejecting Lord Warburton—the peace, the kindness, the honour, the possessions, a deep security and a great exclusion. She kissed Miss Molyneux and then she said: "I'm afraid I can never come again.
Henry JamesTags: classic
Ich wage kaum die Hände auszustrecken, wie in einem engen Spiegelzimmer, aus Furcht überall anzustoßen, daß die schönen Figuren in Scherben auf dem Boden lägen und ich vor der kahlen, nackten Wand stünde.
Georg BüchnerTags: classic play georg-büchner klassiker leonce-und-lena lustspiel
We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.
George EliotTags: life inspirational classic
Gormenghast.
Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet beats away from a choked river. Deep in a fist of stone a doll's hand wriggles, warm rebellious on the frozen palm. A shadow shifts its length. A spider stirs...
And darkness winds between the characters.
- Gormenghast
Tags: art classic literature gormenghast gothic
„Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: classic faust goethe german
Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.
Nora RobertsClassicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.
George SantayanaTags: classic culture tradition george-santayana
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
Mario PuzoTags: classic human-nature
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