"Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it's glorious, it's the end of the world."

-- Joel Achenbach

#Flower Quotes #Weather Quotes #Sublime Quotes

“Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.”
“Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.”
“No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?”

Source : Charles Lever (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)”, p.4531, Delphi Classics
“No matter what people say about me, I'll still do things according to my style.”
“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.”
“Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.”
“And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.”
“Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.”

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