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61 " It is easy,” they grumbled, “to crush those insurgents. One regiment of the Line and horses to drag away the cannon would do it; manifestos and placards won’t.” This was true. At that late hour, it would still have been easy to quell the insurrection. The insurgents were fatigued, enervated, confused. Discipline was almost entirely wanting. "
― Robert W. Chambers , Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers
62 " Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre... Voila toute la différence. "
― Robert W. Chambers , The King in Yellow
63 " Wings,” she murmured, “oh, yes—to fly away with when he’s tired of his play. Of course it was a man who conceived the idea of wings, otherwise Cupid would have been insupportable. "
64 " What is it?" I asked."'The King in Yellow.'"I was dumfounded. Who had placed it there? How came it in my rooms? I had long ago decided that I should never open that book, and nothing on earth could have persuaded me to buy it. Fearful lest curiosity might tempt me to open it, I had never even looked at it in book-stores. "
65 " a preliminary sketch. Your experience tells you that. But "
― Robert W. Chambers , The Common Law
66 " As leis que proibiam o suicídio e puniam qualquer tentativa de autodestruição foram abolidas. O governo achou apropriado reconhecer o direito do homem de acabar com uma existência que pode ser insuportável devido ao sofrimento físico ou desespero mental. Acreditamos que a comunidade será beneficiada pela remoção dessas pessoas de seu convívio. Desde a aprovação desta lei, o número de suicídios nos Estados Unidos não aumentou. Agora que o governo resolveu criar Câmaras Letais em todas as cidades, das maiores aos menores vilarejos do país, resta ver se esse tipo de criatura humana, de cujas fileiras desalentadas diariamente surgem vítimas da autodestruição, aceitará o alívio que elas fornecerão.8 "
67 " Mais je croy que je Suis descendu on puiz Ténébreux onquel disoit Heraclytus estre Vereté cachée. "
68 " Oh, the sin of writing such words – words which are clear as crystal, limpid and musical as bubbling springs, words which sparkle and glow like the poisoned diamonds of the Medicis! "
― Robert W. Chambers , The Yellow Sign and Other Stories
69 " Tessie sat sewing by the window, and every now and then raised her head and looked at me with such innocent compassion that I began to feel ashamed of my irritation and looked about for something to occupy me. "
70 " At last I was King, King by my right in Hastur, King because I knew the mystery of the Hyades, and my mind had sounded the depths of the Lake of Hali. I was King! The first grey pencillings of dawn would raise a tempest which would shake two hemispheres. "
71 " should be read in the Golden Future, some snowy evening by the fire after a home dinner à deux. Your predestined husband, mademoiselle, is to extend his god-like figure upon a sofa, with an ash-tray convenient. You are to do the reading, curled up in the big velvet wing-chair, with the lamp at your left elbow and the fender under your pretty feet. "
― Robert W. Chambers , The Gay Rebellion
72 " THE ATTENTION OF THE CIVILIZED world is, at present, concentrated upon The Science of Eugenics. The author sincerely trusts that this important contribution to the data now being so earnestly nosed out and gathered, may aid his fellow students, scientifically, politically and anthropologically. "
73 " I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth... "
74 " But the Central Federation of Amalgamated Females was to deliver a more deadly blow at man than any yet attempted, a blow that for cruelty and audacity remains unparalleled in the annals of that restless sex. As "
75 " PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF THEDEMOISELLE JEANNE D'Ys,WHO DIEDIN HER YOUTH FOR LOVE OFPHILIP, A STRANGER.A.D. 1573." But upon the icy slab lay a woman's glove still warm and fragrant. "
76 " As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom in early times to consecrate the choir as soon as it was built, and that the nave, being finished sometimes half a century later, often did not get any blessing at all: I "
77 " Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers. "
78 " ragamuffin "
79 " It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God! "
― Robert W. Chambers
80 " Je chante la nature, Les étoiles du soir, les larmes du matin, Les couchers de soleil à l'horizon lointain, Le ciel qui parle au cœur d'existence future! "