He was an English esssayist and accomplished critic, recognized as one of the foremost prose writers of his day; his ornate style, while strongly influenced
by the Romantic authors he knew and emulated, owes much to his vivid imagination and desire to recreate his own intense
personal experiences.
He used his own life as the subject of his most acclaimed work,
the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1822), in which he chronicled his fascinating and horrifying addiction to opium.
The book gives an insightful depiction of drug dependency and an evocative portrait of an altered psychological state.
(1785 - 1859)
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
~ Thomas de Quincey
The public is a bad guesser.
~ Thomas de Quincey
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the
favorite beverage of the intellectual.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential
to man.
~ Thomas de Quincey
All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
~ Thomas de Quincey
But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me;
and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part
at all is proper.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated - everlasting farewells.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a popular American author and humorist. Upon his death he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age." Twain was called "the father of American literature" and he was most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(1835-1910)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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