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Thomas De Quincey

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Dreaming

No man ever will unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

Levana and our ladies of sorrow

Let us call them, therefore, Our Ladies of Sorrow. I know them thoroughly, and have walked in all their kingdoms.

Memorial suspiria

Death we can face: but knowing, as some of us do, what is human life, which of us is it that without shuddering could (if consciously we were summoned) face the hour of birth?

The palimpsest of the human brain

Yes, reader, countless are the mysterious hand-writings of grief or joy which have inscribed themselves successively upon the palimpsest of your brain.

Savannah-la-mar

The time which is contracts into a mathematic point; and even that point perishes a thousand times before we can utter its birth. All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in its velocity of flight towards death.