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Wed 16 Jun 2021

Hell

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Random quote of the day:

“Nobody is ever sent to Hell; he, or she, insists on going there.”

—W. H. Auden, introduction to Charles Williams’ The Descent of the Dove

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Tue 13 Nov 2018

Hell

Posted by PJ under hell, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“Each of us bears his own Hell.”

—Virgil, Aeneid, Book VI, Line 743

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Thu 8 Jun 2017

Personal hell

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Random quote of the day:

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

—Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: “Season of Mists”

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Tue 14 Mar 2017

Frail

Posted by PJ under existence, heaven, hell, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”

—Blaise Pascal, Discours sur les passions de l’amour

 

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Fri 29 Apr 2016

Hell

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Random quote of the day:

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

—Oscar Wilde, The Duchess of Padua

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Tue 3 Feb 2015

Heaven and hell

Posted by PJ under heaven, hell, quote of the day, travel
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Random quote of the day: 

“Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.”

—Mark Twain, letter to W. D. Howells, 20 May 1891

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Wed 17 Aug 2011

I Myself am Heav’n and Hell

Posted by PJ under heaven, hell, quote of the day, soul, the self
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self-place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.”

—Mephistopheles (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus)

 

Which reminds me of a famous Edward FitzGerald translation of this Omar Khayyám’s quatrain:

 

“I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return’d to me,
And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell”

 

…which, to add more ingredients to today’s literary soup, you may remember was used so effectively in The Picture of Dorian Gray.  

 

 

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