Sublime
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What struck me particularly about him was the mixture of a sort of innate natural ferocity with a similarly innate nobility—a mixture such as I have never come across in any other person.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
He [Doyle] created a shrewd, quick-sighted, inquisitive man...with plenty of spare time, a retentive memory, and perhaps with the best gift of all - the power of unloading the mind of all burden of trying to remember unnecessary details.
Peter Bevelin • A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California’s Mt. Ritter.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
The watchword is, 'King and Re.'"
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
They walked softly, as men do instinctively at night.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
unknown landscapes. Again and again a man full of years is merely the corroboration of the dreams of his youth. The sense of fancy growing out of the sense of fact—which makes all healthy personalities and gives a touch of romance and glory to all of life—first appears as the unrestrained imaginings of youth.
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Having locked the door behind him, he crept quietly downstairs.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
assiduously