I've met a lot of murderers in my day, but Dr. Garth, whatever he is, is the first man I've ever met who was polite to me and stil...l made the chills run up and down my back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is runni...ng away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whol...e human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
blue bead on the wick, there's that in me that... burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He remembered the dissolute adventures in which his senses, his nervous system and his mind had indulged; he saw himself corroded ...by irony and intellect, laid waste and paralyzed by insight, almost exhausted by the fevers and chills of creation, helplessly and contritely tossed to and fro between gross extremes, between saintly austerity and lust--oversophisticated and impoverished, worn out by cold, rare artificial ecstasies, lost, ravaged, racked and sick--and he sobbed with remorse and nostalgia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why silk is soft and the stone wounds The child shall question all his days,... Why night-time rain and the breast's blood Both quench his thirst he'll have a black reply.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »