in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
As I have had already a chance to let you see, between the horrible and the grotesque there is but a step.
from the book "" by Arthur Conan Doyle
As I have had already a chance to let you see, between the horrible and the grotesque there is but a step.
It is lucky for my community that I am not a criminal.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
By order of the author.
It's a lot more difficult judging yourself than others, if you can judge yourself well it means you must be very wise.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
"My father thought that this action had been miraculously performed. He believed that a benefactor had
arisen from the grave to save us. Oh, it was a touching superstition, monsieur, and although I did not myself believe it, I would not for the world have destroyed my father's faith. How often did he muse over it and pronounce the name of a dear friend, a friend lost to him forever; and on his death-bed, when the near approach of eternity seemed to have illumined his mind with supernatural light, this thought, which had until then been but a doubt, became a conviction, and his last words were, `Maximilian, it was Edmond Dantes!"
All the books of the world don't give you happiness, but in secret they refer to you.
There is everything you needin there, sun stars moon.
Because the light that you looked for lives in your chest.
The wisdom that you have looked for a long time in a library sines in every sheet, because now it's yours.
Part of that Power, not understood,
Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.
We must never judge other people's lives, because every person knows only their pain and renounce. It is one thing to feel you're on the right path, another to think it is your only one.
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.