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Alberto Chimal · @albertochimal
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Debo hacer a un lado la fea acumulación de la existencia y reencontrar la mirada que la amó lo bastante, al principio, para mostrar sus cimientos. Lo que me queda en la vida está en este ataque, este temblor.

I must cast off life's ugly accumulation and find again the gaze that loved it enough in the beginning to display its foundation. What is left for me to life exists in this assault, this tremor.

—René Char

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Jan Thie · @Jantar
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Another d-mn'd drooly day! Always, drizzle, drizzle, drizzle! Eh! Mr. Greysky?*

Even the cat can't be bothered to go outside.

*My apologies to the ghost of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester.







#airguitar #CatsOfMastodon #bookstodon #quotes #literaryquotes #edwardgibbons #rain

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alphabetsoup · @Alphabetsoup
149 followers · 347 posts · Server mastodon.world

"Listen to *me*," said the demon, as he placed his hand upon my head...

And I stood in the morass among the tall lilies, and the rain fell upon my head - and the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation.

Edgar Allan Poe

#wordsmatter #quoteoftheday #literaryquotes #quote #bookstodon #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #books #readingforpleasure #edgarallanpoe

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alphabetsoup · @Alphabetsoup
141 followers · 291 posts · Server mastodon.world

He fantasized that the universe was a Rube Goldberg machine.

Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

#wordsmatter #quoteoftheday #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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‘In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms.’

- A. A. Milne, The Red House Mystery

#aamilne #theredhousemystery #classicdetectivefiction #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well.”

- Stendhal, The Red and the Black

#stendhal #theredandtheblack #19thcentury #FrenchLiterature #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #festivequotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“I adore you, I hate you, I offend you, I ask your pardon, I admire you, I blush for my admiration: in a word, I have nothing of tranquillity or reason left about me.”

- Madame De La Fayette, The Princess of Cleves

#madamedelafayette #theprincessofcleves #historicalromance #histodon #FrenchLiterature #17thcentury #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.”

- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol 🎩 🕯️ ❄️

to the wonderful Simon Vance audio edition audible.co.uk/pd/A-Christmas-C

#BookCommunity

#nowlistening #charlesdickens #achristmascarol #christmasreads #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“Your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes that is the best help of all.”

- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess ⭐ ❄️ 🎄

#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #alittleprincess #childrensclassics #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.”

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”

- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet

#enesbit #thephoenixandthecarpet #mythology #childrensadventurebooks #childrensbooks #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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KiwiRed · @kiwired
483 followers · 4855 posts · Server mastodon.nz

Sometimes when things are hard and times are challenging, I'm reminded of words of wisdom spoken by Death, as written by the much missed Terry Pratchett.

"DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?"

#discworld #terrypratchett #literaryquotes

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“Sing, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea, seeking to win his own life and the return of his comrades.”

- Homer, The Odyssey

#Homer #theodyssey #classics #classicalmythology #greekmythology #epicpoetry #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity

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Melanie · @melizjs
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"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”

- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄

#agathachristie #HerculePoirot #themysteriousaffairatstyles #classicdetectivefiction #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”

- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄

#agathachristie #HerculePoirot #themysteriousaffairatstyles #classicdetectivefiction #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. Let us take it easy, and let us take it short; we shall be in the thick of the mystery soon, I promise you!”

- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

#WilkieCollins #TheMoonstone #19thcentury #victorianliterature #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon #classicdetectivefiction

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”

- Ovid, Metamorphoses

#Ovid #metamorphoses #greekmythology #romanpoetry #ClassicalPoetry #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“And now gentlemen … all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?”

- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

#alexandredumas #swashbuckler #ClassicBooks #literaryclassics #FrenchLiterature #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookcommunity #bookish #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig.  Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher

#RobertLouisStevenson #burkeandhare #horrorclassics #literaryclassics #moncreiffepress #literaryquotes #bookcommunity #bookstodon

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Melanie · @melizjs
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“Are you surprised at the knowledge of the law which this way of writing betrays in an ignorant woman? I have been learning, my dear: the Law and the Lady have begun understanding one another.”

- Wilkie Collins, The Law and The Lady

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