the beginning is the end/the end is the beginning

Brianna Kennedy

_{All men dream: but not equally.}

_{Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity:}

_{but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.}

_{- T.E. Lawrence}

#preface

21 марта 2021 в 12:59:17

a vast metropolis outraged by the power of one man

_{But like the Weird Sisters, they would have lied, for in the glory was also the ashes of Dead Sea fruit — an understanding that could neither be inflamed by desire nor satisfied by luxury; a heart that was long since wearied by experience;}

_{a soul that was as bereft of illusion as a windless moon.}

_{And to Aileen, as to Macduff, they might have spoken a more pathetic promise, one that concerned hope and failure. To have and not to have!}

_{All the seeming, and yet the sorrow of not having! Brilliant society that shone in a mirage, yet locked its doors;}

_{love that eluded as a will-o’-the-wisp and died in the dark.}

_{Hail to you, Frank Cowperwood, master and no master,}

Prince of a world of dreams whose reality was disillusion!

_{— The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser}

#quotes #books