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“It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scoured you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all.”

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Book:The Snow Child
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Book:Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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“The awfulness of sudden death and the glory of heaven stunned me! The thing that had been mystery at twilight, lay clear, pure, open in the rosy hue of dawn. Out of the gates of the morning poured a light which glorified the palaces and pyramids, purged and purified the afternoon's inscrutable clefts, swept away the shadows of the mesas, and bathed that broad, deep world of mighty mountains, stately spars of rock, sculptured cathedrals and alabaster terraces in an artist's dream of color. A pearl from heaven had burst, flinging its heart of fire into this chasm. A stream of opal flowed out of the sun, to touch each peak, mesa, dome, parapet, temple and tower, cliff and cleft into the new-born life of another day. I sat there for a long time and knew that every second the scene changed, yet I could not tell how. I knew I sat high over a hole of broken, splintered, barren mountains; I knew I could see a hundred miles of the length of it, and eighteen miles of the width of it, and a mile of the depth of it, and the shafts and rays of rose light on a million glancing, many-hued surfaces at once; but that knowledge was no help to me. I repeated a lot of meaningless superlatives to myself, and I found words inadequate and superfluous. The spectacle was too elusive and too great. It was life and death, heaven and hell.”

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Book:The Last of the Plainsmen
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Book:That Old Black Magic
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“¿Estaré loco?, debo confesar que la mayor confianza que pueda tener en mi sano juicio me ha sido dada en los momentos en que observando lo que hacen los otros y lo que no hacen, escuchando lo que dicen y lo que callan, me ha surgido esta fugitiva sospecha de si estaré loco. Estar loco se dice que es haber perdido la razón. La razón, pero no la verdad, porque hay locos que dicen verdades que los demás callan por no ser ni racional ni razonable decirlas, y por eso se dice que están locos. ¿Y qué es la razón? La razón es aquello en que estamos todos de acuerdo, todos o por lo menos la mayoría. La verdad es otra cosa, la razón es social; la verdad, de ordinario, es completamente individual, personal e incomunicable. La razón nos une y las verdades nos separan.”

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