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“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.”

Mean Certain Quality Taken Wall Stones Originals Ignored Dwelling Epidemics Gormenghast

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.”

Should Humans Has Beens Law Used Heaven Taken Mass Stones Victim Slavery Monsters Used To Be Confused Savages Royalty Feudalism Thunderbolts

Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.”

Writing Important Voice Taken Stones Importance Silent Breakdown

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.”

Might Taken Becoming Stones Responsible Thrown Within You Nevertheless Unjust Avoided Back Again

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either.”

Wells Kind Has Beens Play Situation Taken Pieces Advantage Stones Heat Exposed Salt Frost Quarry

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.”

Thinking May Stills Evil Voice Sin Lord Taken Habit Stones Thee Loud Sinner Weeping Saviour Lebanon Small Voice Cedars

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164

“[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .”

Country Taken Stones Clinton Feminist

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.”

Knows Heart Two Eye Today My Own Known Taken Stones Flesh Yesterday Grey Clay Grey Eyes

Book:The Dogs of Babel: A Novel

Source: The Dogs of Babel: A Novel

“Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful.”

Ifs Eye Simple Taken Dying Pure Stones Careful Confusion Despite Skulls Precaution Madhouses Figments

Book:Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

Source: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

“As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol, there’s nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. But there is no give to the surface - only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.”

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)