Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
bide the time when all of us shall be alike in quality afore our God!’
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
“If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”
Austin Kleon • You’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do - Austin Kleon
profligacies
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of others attracted him,
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
and they sank beneath the unnatural devotion of their youthful energies to their dry old books?
CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
Inordinate affections