Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“He’s too superstitious not to see this as a bad omen, but when you're a pessimist, all omens are bad.”
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 23
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Context: He grew, and grew,
A star-bright sign of fated empery;
And all conspiring omens led him on
To lofty purpose and pre-eminence.
The mountain eagles, towering in their pride,
Stoop'd at his beck and flock'd about his path,
Like the small birds by wintry famine tamed;
Or with their dusky and expansive wings
Shaded and fann'd him as he slept at noon.
The lightnings danced before him sportively,
And shone innocuous as the pale cold moon
In the clear blue of his celestial eye.
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Fight for your country—that is the best, the only omen!”
XII. 243 (tr. Robert Fagles).
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