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Quote by George MacDonald

“I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.”

Book:Lilith

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Lilith

In this novel, the character Lilith is portrayed as a figure embodying the essence of forbidden love and the struggle between good and evil. The story delves into the complexities of human relationships and the consequences of forbidden desires. more

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George MacDonald

George MacDonald was a 19th-century Scottish author known for his fantasy literature and religious thought. His works had a profound influence on later writers, such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. more

“When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.”

Stories Romance Process Attitude Moral Teach Produce Operations Subtle Iron Butterfly Pins Unnatural Depriving

Book:Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels

Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels

“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.”