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"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. We have adopted Christianity merely as an improved method of agri-culture. We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten."
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
"As if one were to wear any sort of coat which the tailor might cut out for him, or, gradually leaving off palmleaf hat or cap of woodchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown!"
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
"I sometimes despair of getting any thing quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men."
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives."
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes."
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
"It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it."
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
'I feared, oh so much, that the appalling nature of our danger was overcoming him when I saw his hand stretch out; but it was life to me to feel its touch -- so strong, so self-reliant, so resolute. A brave man's hand can speak for itself; it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.'
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
Hello All,
Wow. So a whole year, huh? Sorry about that. I'm sure everyone was just waiting on the edge of their seats for more book quotes. Because there is nowhere else to find those sorts of things. Yeah.
I'm sure you were all wondering, "Hey, where did that lady go? She promised quotes from books." Well, I have been very busy. Writing a book! Which is really exciting! I'm the process of grooming it; I'm hoping for publication, so this blog will still be hairy at best. Ew. I have even more books on my "planning to read" bookshelf that last time, so there's that to look forward to?
This formatting for a Quote post is not something I'm happy with. It works if you're quoting one person saying something, but if you're quoting, say, a book with, for example, dialogue or more than one paragraph, it gets a bit hairy. So from now on I will do them in Text posts because, wow, that's so much easier on the eyes. I'm sure you care about this a lot. I was thinking about going back and changing all the previous posts to Text posts, but I'm going to have to be very incredibly bored for that to happen.
"Goodbye, and I hope I may see you often, under auspices pleasanter to yourself," to which, to my astonishment, he replied: --
"Goodbye, my dear. I pray God I may never see your sweet face again. may He bless and keep you!"
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
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I'm not sure if you guys have heard anything about DashCon, but it's a pretty special thing. A lot of fandom/tumblr-famous people are going to be there, so I don't know what you're interested in, but please check this convention out! It's going to be a lot of fun!
'You are certainly an extraordinary person,' said Danglars; 'and philosophers may well say it is a fine thing to be rich.' 'And to have ideas,' added Madame Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
'Now, to follow out this reasoning: what is the marvelous? -- that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire? -- that which we cannot obtain. Now, to see things which I cannot understand, to procure impossibilities, these are the studies of my life. I gratify my wishes by two means -- my will and my money.'
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
'Ah, madame!' he said, 'why did you not make that request of me?' 'With you, sir,' replied the baroness, 'one can wish for nothing, one is so sure to obtain it.'
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
'Why do you like it best?' 'Because then I have no responsibility; I am a machine then, and nothing else; and so long as I work, nothing more is required of me.' 'Is it possible,' said Monte Cristo to himself, 'that I can have met with a man that has no ambition? That would spoil my plans.'
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
'Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand. I shall, therefore, not visit either of these telegraphs, but one in the open country, where I shall find a good-natured simpleton, who knows no more than the machine he is employed to work.'
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
'But to do this he must have spoken?' 'He has done better than that -- he has made himself understood.'
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
