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“where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.”

Book:Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer

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Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer

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Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey was an American writer known for his distinctive black humor and Gothic style. His works spanned various genres, including children's literature, adult fiction, and illustration design. more

“Mientras estaba tendido allí, a un paso de mí yacía un escarabajo, patas arriba, desesperado. No podía enderezarse, me habría gustado ayudarlo, era tan fácil hacerlo, bastaba un paso y un empujoncito para brindarle una ayuda efectiva. Pero lo olvidé a causa de la carta. Además no podía ponerme de pie. Por fin, una lagartija logró que volviera a tomar conciencia de la vida que me rodeaba. Su camino la llevó hasta el escarabajo, que ya estaba totalmente inmóvil. De modo que no fue un accidente, me dije, sino una lucha mortal, el raro espectáculo de la muerte natural de un animal. Pero la lagartija al deslizarse por encima del escarabajo, lo enderezó. Por uno instantes continuó inmóvil, como muerto, pero luego trepó la pared como la cosa más natural. Es probable que eso me haya brindado, de alguna manera, un poco de coraje. Lo cierto es que me puse de pie, bebí leche y le escribí a usted.”

Letters Spanish

Book:Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person ― some stranger ― had gone to the trouble of marking my name on this envelope.”

Letters Correspondence

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Reaching out to her is like drinking from a memory.”

Letters

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they? I felt when I got to the end that I'd lived for years in that set. But oh dearie me I am glad that I'm not in it!”

Literature Letters Letter

Book:The Letters of Lytton Strachey

Source: The Letters of Lytton Strachey

“Even though May came in accompanied by rain, all the fields were bright with the loveliest green imaginable. A sunbeam pierced a little gap in the dark sea of cloud, and the world laughed and glittered in the light of heaven. I stood there marveling and thought, Does God take us for fools, that he should light up the world for us with such consummate beauty in the radiance of his glory, in his honor? And nothing, on the other hand, but rapine and murder? Where does the truth lie? Should one go off and build a little house with flowers outside the windows and a garden outside the door and extol and thank God and turnone’s back on the world and its filth? Isn’t seclusion a form of treachery of desertion? I’m weak and puny, but I want to do what is right.”

Letters 1941 Rose Naegele

Book:At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

Source: At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.”

Letters Latin Cicero Ad Familiares

Book:Letters of Cicero

Source: Letters of Cicero

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