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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), II : The Starting-Point
John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness
The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.
“They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived.”
Clive Staples Lewis book That Hideous Strength
Source: That Hideous Strength (1945), Ch. 13 : They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven on Their Heads
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Table-Talk (1857)
Context: Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence".
David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon
Revolution by Number
Stanisław Lem book Szempillantás
Starożytni mawiali: 'mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur'.
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"A Blink of an Eye", Okamgnienie (2000); the phrase "Mundus Vult Decipi" was used as a motto by the American satirist James Branch Cabell and is said to have originated with Petronius.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Golden Violet - title poem - introduction
The Golden Violet (1827)