Hope Mirrlees quotes
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“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”
-- Hope MirrleesSource : Hope Mirrlees (2007). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC
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“Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.”
-- Hope MirrleesSource : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.
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“Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".”
-- Hope MirrleesSource : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.125, F+W Media, Inc.
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“In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he can never tell.”
-- Hope MirrleesSource : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.247, F+W Media, Inc.
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“There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.”
-- Hope MirrleesSource : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.54, F+W Media, Inc.
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“The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.”
-- Hope MirrleesSource : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.62, F+W Media, Inc.
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