“The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.”
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book Two in 'By Candlelight'
The Master and Margarita (1967)
Book II, line 287 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.”
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book Two in 'By Candlelight'
The Master and Margarita (1967)
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
The Devil-Doll, talking to Toto at the end of the movie (1936).
Henry Melvill (1798–1871) British academic
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 342.
Context: God is summoning you. Angels are summoning you. The myriads who have gone before are summoning you. We are surrounded by a "great cloud of witnesses." The battlements of the sky seem thronged with those who have fought the good fight of faith. They bend down from the eminence, and bid us ascend, through the one Mediator, to the same lofty dwelling.
“Even the gods cannot change destiny.”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Source: Norse Mythology (2017), Chapter 14, “The Death of Balder” (p. 234)
Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata
The Sun god appeared before Kunti
The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXIII
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society (20 February 1954)
1950s
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 7, “Communion” (p. 126)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Last Song of Corinne
Translations, From the French