"Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fataliteÂ ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Art Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Evil Quotes

“The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream”

Source : Dana Burnet (1915). “Poems”
“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.488, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.”
“I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.”

Source : Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Avenue of the Dead”, p.50, Open Road Media
“Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.”
“There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.”
“The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.”
“I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.”

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