Lionel Johnson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.
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Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.
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Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.
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Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.
-- Lionel Johnson
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
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Literature is the immortality of speech.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.
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Men are immortal till their work is done.
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This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
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