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“I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.”

Fall Wish Terror Wounds Risen

Author:Christian Wiman

“When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.”

People Fall Imagination Mere Terror Vices Dread Fling Precipice

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We are in the position of a man with an elaborate camping kit who finds himself lost in the woods without his matches; to kindle a fire he has to resort to the stratagems of the caveman. We fall back through generations into the oldest terrors and confusions of the race.”

Men Fall Lost Race Fire Generations Position Terror Conviction Woods Checks Confusion Resorts Fall Back Kindles Camping Stratagem Lost In The Woods

Author:John Dos Passos

“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”

Fall Sea Terror Ripped

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing and the night cold and the night long and the river to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning and blackness ahead”

Long Running Night Fall Darkness Cold Shapes Rivers Crosses Slavery Terror Hunters Blackness Hounds Lanterns Beckoning

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.”

Said Fall Victory Battle Adversity Terror Combination Robes

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson