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Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.”

Book:The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

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The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

The collection includes letters exchanged between Thomas Carlyle, the 19th-century Scottish historian and philosopher, and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. The correspondence spans several decades and provides a detailed look into their relationship, personal thoughts, and intellectual exchanges. more

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle, born on December 4, 1795, and died on February 5, 1881, was a prominent Scottish philosopher, historian, and writer. His works are known for their profound social criticism and unique literary style, which had a significant impact on 19th-century British literature and thought. more

“Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival.”

Wells Feelings Hands Faces Water Walks Steps Path Mirrors Wander Landscape Heavenly Sole Interiors Arrivals

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.”