Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright
“When years have past
Over the fallen arch, the ruin'd hall,
It seems but course of time, the one great doom,
Whose influence is alike upon us all;”
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
Vitruvius book De architectura
Introduction, Sec. 14
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IX
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
John Romero (1967) American video game designer
In response to the question, "What makes a classic game?" (quoted from Romero's own webpage http://rome.ro/lee_killough/index.shtml)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein
“This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.”
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
Context: The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain,—only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil.... This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.
Xenophon (-430–-354 BC) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Hellenica Bk. 4, as translated by Carleton L. Brownson (1918)
“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)